Introducing the Consumer Protection Database: Expose exploitation & hold companies accountable! (www.youtube.com)
from reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 07:01
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35610071

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

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putitoutwithyourbootsted@piefed.social on 15 Jan 08:03 next collapse

I think they call this the Better Business Bureau. But I definitely would not put all stock in BBB as a single source for this information.

reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Jan 08:08 next collapse

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.

hansolo@lemm.ee on 15 Jan 08:08 collapse

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.

tabular@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 08:07 next collapse

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

reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Jan 08:11 collapse

Spread the word if you can. The more eyes this can reach, the better it will be for everyone.

witty_username@feddit.nl on 15 Jan 08:45 next collapse

Great idea and a great person to take it up

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub on 15 Jan 09:57 next collapse

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.

reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Jan 10:13 next collapse

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.

essteeyou@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 22:49 collapse

That is how wikis work.

LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml on 15 Jan 21:52 next collapse

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.

LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml on 15 Jan 21:56 collapse
Blackmist@feddit.uk on 16 Jan 08:32 collapse

Going to be a big list. Hope he’s got enough storage space.

reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Jan 09:32 collapse

I’m honestly not too worried. At least he has a good idea of what he’s doing.