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{{Short description|Website dedicated to critique and or mockery}} |
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A '''Gripe Site''' is a web site created to criticize a company, the government, a person or a political figure. Many of the organizations that are criticized often try to supress this form of Free Speech by suing the complainant for trademark infringement or defamation. |
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A '''gripe site''' is a type of ] that is dedicated to ] or complaint about a specific subject.<ref> '']'' (February 2007).</ref> The subject could be a ], ], ], ], ], or something else. A gripe site may aim to offer constructive criticism to the subject (like an ]), or may simply ] the subject. |
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Some websites "position themselves as places where consumers can post complaints", providing coverage of "a wide range of consumer markets".<ref name="Perkins">Ed Perkins, "", ''The Tacoma News Tribune'' (July 9, 2006), p. E9.</ref> In addition to providing a forum for the posting of complaints, such sites may also "offer general guidelines about where to complain and how to do it", and "provide links, snail-mail addresses and even names for places and people" to whom complaints can be directed.<ref name="Perkins"/> Other gripe sites may be dedicated to a single business,<ref name="Perkins"/> and "some major suppliers do monitor gripe sites", albeit not for the benefit of those who are complaining.<ref name="Perkins"/> |
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A 2021 report found that some companies advertising reputation management services to remove slanderous information from gripe sites were actually working in collaboration with those sites.<ref name="Krolik Hill">Aaron Krolik and ], "", '']'' (May 6, 2021).</ref> Companies with such a relationship, the report speculated, would charge a substantial amount to get information removed from one gripe site while facilitating the appearance of that information on another gripe site, in order to continue charging for further removals.<ref name="Krolik Hill"/> |
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{{Intellectual property activism}} |
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Some websites "position themselves as places where consumers can post complaints", providing coverage of "a wide range of consumer markets". In addition to providing a forum for the posting of complaints, such sites may also "offer general guidelines about where to complain and how to do it", and "provide links, snail-mail addresses and even names for places and people" to whom complaints can be directed. Other gripe sites may be dedicated to a single business, and "some major suppliers do monitor gripe sites", albeit not for the benefit of those who are complaining.
A 2021 report found that some companies advertising reputation management services to remove slanderous information from gripe sites were actually working in collaboration with those sites. Companies with such a relationship, the report speculated, would charge a substantial amount to get information removed from one gripe site while facilitating the appearance of that information on another gripe site, in order to continue charging for further removals.
