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Introducing the Consumer Protection Database: Expose exploitation & hold companies accountable! (youtu.be)
submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Louis Rossmann is making a wiki to help people hold companies accountable for anti-consumer behavior.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

That is how wikis work.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 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.