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marmar

(76,991 posts)
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 12:12 PM Apr 2013

Bus company threatens to sue Reddit moderator over bad press


Most people have had bad bus rides—is there such thing as a good one?—but one redditor has endured a ride from hell. A user by the name of NegatedVoid was threatened with a lawsuit after helping moderate a thread on Reddit that was critical of Suburban Express, a bus company in the Chicago area that caters to college students.

The Reddit discussion was spurred by a Facebook post and story in the University of Illinois student paper that described an incident when a Suburban Express driver belittled an exchange student. A graduate student, Jeremy Leval, witnessed the incident and told the driver his language was "offensive and unnecessary." Later on, he went to Facebook to express his disgust with the company. More than 700 users shared the post and it was liked more than 600 times.

Not among those fans was Suburban Express, which emailed Leval four days later saying he was banned from the bus line for life and was being fined $500 for “liquidated damages,” part of the company's terms of service.

Leval is not the first rider to be banned for life because of things posted on the Internet. In the past, Suburban Express has tracked down Yelp reviewers and banned them when the bus company received a less than perfect review. .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.dailydot.com/business/suburban-express-uiuc-reddit-moderator-bus-lawsuit/



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Bus company threatens to sue Reddit moderator over bad press (Original Post) marmar Apr 2013 OP
Maybe Suburban Express should try improving bus service . . . Brigid Apr 2013 #1
Little advice there bus company, better to keep your mouth shut and let it die down snooper2 Apr 2013 #2
The bus company thinks it can fine you? good luck with that one. hobbit709 Apr 2013 #3
THIS is the new way to treat bad press DiverDave Apr 2013 #4
linl to Yelp reviews.. frylock Apr 2013 #5

Brigid

(17,621 posts)
1. Maybe Suburban Express should try improving bus service . . .
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 12:48 PM
Apr 2013

Last edited Tue Apr 30, 2013, 02:40 PM - Edit history (1)

instead of wasting time tracking down freaking facebook posts and yelp reviews. Good Lord.

Am I the only one who has trouble taking facebook posts and yelp reviews seriously?

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
2. Little advice there bus company, better to keep your mouth shut and let it die down
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 01:03 PM
Apr 2013

otherwise, you take on the Internet you will lose

DiverDave

(4,877 posts)
4. THIS is the new way to treat bad press
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 03:07 PM
Apr 2013

I'm going to yelp and put a negative post on.
See how much blood they can get from a turnip.
should be fun.

On edit:
Another story about this

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/express-to-internet-hate-bus-company-threatens-redditor-with-lawsuit/

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