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From Ars Technica:
Imagine you just purchased a shiny new wireless router from Amazon, only to discover that the product doesn't work as you anticipated. To vent frustration and perhaps help others avoid the same mistake, you leave a negative product review-but some of your claims ultimately turn out to be incorrect or misleading. Now the company's attorneys want to sue you for your "illegal campaign to damage, discredit, defame, and libel" it. Are you going down in flames? Or can you say what you want on the Internet? As with many areas of law, the answers are nuanced and complicated. Our primer, however, will help you avoid the obvious pitfalls.
The article contains advice from defamation lawyer Lee Berlik and free speech attorney Paul Alan Levy.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 15 2014, @09:02AM
Just shut up and buy the thing already, you consumer!
(Score: 3, Funny) by kaszz on Thursday May 15 2014, @10:48AM
"We tested our whiz pill on 100 patients in 10 trials. And all participants died except in one trial. Those 10 patients still lived to write about it in an excellent review. That said the pill was great. So we filed a great 100% satisfied review to FDC and our lobbyist made a future career offer to encourage the examiner as an invisible bribe. Now our 10% survivors continue to write excellent reviews. Our statistician nagged something about systematic bias so we fired him and now only have a smiling staff and dead patients all around." :D