Louis Rossmann is making a wiki to help people hold companies accountable for anti-consumer behavior.

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    57 minutes ago

    I love the name “Consumer Action Taskforce” for CAT, some artwork and images would be nice, but that can be a feature that the user can choose if they want to, obviously to lower the bandwidth costs.

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    13 hours ago

    Assuming this gains traction, I don’t see how they’ll prevent it from being abused with targeted misinformation, short of manually reviewing and approving every new article and every edit.

    • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      13 hours ago

      Absolutely agree with that. He does have a lot of experience dealing with right to repair and all that so here’s hoping he knows how to handle it correctly.

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    15 hours ago

    Like a dedicated ’Controversy’ section on Wikipedia but for the modern consumer/end user protection. This gonna’ be good.

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      15 hours ago

      In theory, but in practice the BBB is usually a pay-to-play sort of racket where as long as a member doesn’t have active litigation happening, you can likely swing an A+ rating and still be a terrible company. It’s business oriented, not consumer.

    • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      15 hours ago

      I have no idea really. I just wanted to get the word out. The more people that know about this and help, the better it will become.