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FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect

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376 points indus | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 15:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bragr ◴[22 Oct 24 15:27 UTC] No.41915238[source]▶
Does the regulation say anything about deceptively moderating reviews? e.g. deleting all the low star reviews?

edit: it doesn't seem so. You just have use some weasel language:

>The final rule also bars a business from misrepresenting that the reviews on a review portion of its website represent all or most of the reviews submitted when reviews have been suppressed based upon their ratings or negative sentiment.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/08/...

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sidewndr46 ◴[22 Oct 24 16:32 UTC] No.41916025[source]▶
I guess manufacturers will now just have to reject anything other than a five star review immediately. As long as it is not submitted, it cannot be suppressed
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popcalc ◴[22 Oct 24 17:02 UTC] No.41916305[source]▶
FINALLY a use for MangoDB https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb
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sidewndr46 ◴[22 Oct 24 17:14 UTC] No.41916411[source]▶
That lists a complexity of O(1) for all operations. I'm not sure that will scale. I expect my database to implement O(0) or lower complexity.
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1. kevin_thibedeau ◴[22 Oct 24 19:19 UTC] No.41917698{3}[source]▶
Will you settle for O(sqrt(1))?