Yelp Has Decided to be the Racism Police

I am living through the communization of the United States. It's like in China where places will be listed as anti-regime or anti-communist. You launch the app and search only to be hit with an alert emblazoned with an ominously large exclamation point Business accused of racist behavior. The R-word. That puts a company out of business. Yelp has decided to take a stance against racism by enabling a feature they claim would arm consumers with information about businesses associated with, quote, egregious racially charged actions to help people make, quote, more informed spending decisions. In reality, Yelp is introducing a rudimentary social credit system— please hear this— that subjects business owners to the vagaries of the culture wars. No stranger to controversy, Yelp has previously been embroiled in lawsuits alleging that it forced companies to pay for advertising on its platform and withheld positive reviews as leverage until they gave in by injecting an official notice based on no more than an accusation of racist behavior. Let's— so let me make something clear. If I owned a restaurant, it would be declared racist because I'm conservative. So what this does is Yelp is among the forces that is vigorously suppressing free speech in this country. This is why conservatives feel constrained to keep quiet, to fake who they are. That is why the left asks after elections, where are all these people from? Because you, you don't hear from all these people because they will be suppressed. See the article in the New York Times on talk radio? What was the charge against— it was, it was like a, it was like a joke. I'll read it to you later. They'll come after talk radio if the Democrats win. We're sort of under their radar. The most powerful force in America, perhaps, in the media, to oppose the left. In any event, Yelp is just joining in. There isn't— the only answer is for you to disregard Yelp. That really is the only answer. Can you imagine if it If we had the opposite? List whether or not this business is pro-socialism or a Marxist. Of course we don't have that. Anyway, that would be a good thing at Yelp. These places need to go out of business and then honest places need to replace them. The purpose of Yelp is not to assess the moral, social, political, religious views of the owners of businesses. It is solely to enable people to honestly, if that's possible, put in their reactions to a given place of business. That is it. That's all it should be. It should be as neutral as humanly possible. Obnoxious people who run a business, and if the business is run well, then that is the way it works. Nice people who run a lousy business, then they get poor grades. You're not grading on the— your affinity with the owners. By injecting an official notice based on no more than an accusation— remember, it's just an accusation of racist behavior— Yelp is enhancing the perverse incentives to weaponize its reviews. There is simply no way to tell if a business is the victim of false accusations, right? How do you know? Somebody puts in there— by the way, they're anonymous, right? Yelp reviews? They're both? And even if it's not, so what? You know, person nobody knows, you know, Joe Blow writes in, this place is racist. This is— there is simply no way to tell if a business is the victim of false accusations, especially given the frenzied pace of social media pile-ons. For an industry that runs on razor-thin margins, every day that a restaurant's reputation is sullied is a day that edges it closer to financial ruin. Then they give the example of Gibson's Bakery, which I covered here. Was it at Oberlin? Place has been in business, what is it, over, you know, 134 years. 1-800-PRAGER-776. Very scary things happening in the United States, much scarier than COVID-19.