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Complaint Review: Yelp.com Corporate Office Headquarters - San Francisco California
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Bob Levin -
Portland, Oregon, United States of America
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Yelp.com Corporate Office Headquarters
650 Mission Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco, 94105 California, United States of America
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Yelp.com Corporate Office Headquarters Closed my account without reason as part of being blacklisted as an FBI whistleblower. San Francisco, California
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ref: http://www.scribd.com/doc/56477886/Yelp-com-should-be-Boycotted-and-Closed-Down
See the Facebook food photo section and the series of articles on Scribd titled Gladiator of the Wok.
Manifesto: On Thursday, May 26, 2011 and two weeks after communicating my interest in a job opening through the Yelp.com website, Yelp unmasked itself as another dreck fascist corporation by closing my account without warning or provocation. This in the face of my fervent support for the reemergence of mom and pop small businesses within the Portland, Oregon and San Francisco Bay Area. Given my well-known status as a validated FBI Whistleblower, Yelp.com knew or should have known that it was acting as a participant in ongoing illegal Cointelpro operations with the Mens Rae, Actus Reus and Resulting Harm of violating my Constitutional 1st Amendment Rights to Freedom of Speech and a Free Press. Under something cousin to the evolved methods of McCarthyism, I remain tortured as a blacklisted American citizens sanctioned in political retribution by a clandestine neutralization campaign. - Bob Levin
Re: Notice of complaint against Yelp.com for violations of the Oregon Unlawful Trade Practices Act [UTPA], duplicitous Selective Enforcement, the Unlawful use of a Communication Facility, and for violating my Constitutional
1st Amendment rights of freedom of speech and a free press.
To Whom It May Concern:
This companion complaint is being simultaneous filed with a request for investigatory action from the Oregon Department of Justice, the American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU, Oregon] and the Federal Communications Commission.
Today without warning or provocation Yelp.com closed my account. This lawless action possesses the same color of sanctions that have been targeted against me as a validated FBI Whistleblower patriot for over a decade. Yelp.com has mirrored the fractionalizing methods of ongoing illegal Cointelpro operations and the blacklisting tactics of a clandestine neutralization
campaign that is something cousin to evolved McCarthyism.
Primarily I have used Yelp.com as a creative writing outlet to help promote the reemergence of mom and pop small businesses around Portland, Oregon and the Bay Area with mostly fun reviews concerning food and restaurants.
On this exhaustingly long day while still believing my Yelp.com account was active, no less than three people in the Portland area, stated they were going to read my reviews during the evening with the intent of dining at those restaurants.
I'm a professional writer and journalist who publishes in my own voice while unrestricted by a corporate employer and I am not offended when someone makes a constructive criticism concerning my work. Writing is like breathing for me and a process that sometimes requires a rewrite to craft the best work.
After weeks of positive feedback from other writers, private citizens and restaurant owners with several requesting personal
meetings, the only negative reaction that I've experienced on Yelp.com came the other day when a person published a negative piece of drivel regarding my latest Chinese restaurant review. Elsewhere that same person gave rated Shari's
Restaurants with five stars, because they gave him a free pie with his sandwich.
It caused me to remember the childhood book "George the Pig" with George eating so many doughnuts be blew up and turned into a giant doughnut.
Two weeks ago I had expressed an interest in a Yelp.com position in Vancouver, Canada and was blindsided and stymied by this unwarranted attack by their dotcom corporation. Among 148 emails today alone, I discovered this redacted section within Yelp's TOS email: "Our Support team has determined that your account has violated Yelp's Terms of Service, specifically
for using your account for commercial or promotional purposes. In other words, Yelp.com criminally practices Selective Enforcement to violate the U.S. Constitutional 1st Amendment with their Unlawful Use of a Communication Facility and while
trampling the Oregon Unlawful Trade Practices Act. Moreover the closing of my Yelp.com account is a reverse tactic that directly harms the financial wellbeing of the businesses that I have reviewed on Yelp.com. This hypocrisy by Yelp.com obliviously demonstrates an agenda by their objection to firsthand experiences and facts written in a creative
and enjoyable manner.
In the same manner that YouTube was purchased by Google, Inc. or Skype by Microsoft, it seems possible that Yelp.com is
expanding on the backs of its citizen reviewers to show a globalizing demographic, only to sell-off their labors to a hungry monopoly sometime in the future. Possibly Yelp.com is seeking to be purchased by Walmart since their action against me
does not coincide with their mission focus. Let's not forget that Yelp.com is no longer afforded a veil of corporate protection for its officers after the politicians wearing robes on the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are now people inside the virtual death camp of America.
Regardless and beyond this complaint, let me be the first to compliment Yelp.com for hiring the emotionally handicapped on their TOS Support Team, because lobotomy patients are people too. However I would like to know Yelp.com's specific examples of how I violated any terms of service agreement by mindfully publishing reviews in support of small businesses. Additionally, I am in the processes of notifying each of those business's owners that my reviews have not only been pulled, but my entire Yelp.com account closed without specific reason. Several of my readers have already voiced negative outrage towards this anti-American act by Yelp.com.
Yelp.com's own website solicits for commercial or promotional purposes through by the information requested and the social
network interfacing required by Yelp.com; lest we forget the commercial or promotional business reviews the website is designed for. The Yelp.com user with an account is also asked to upload their personal photograph, logo or avatar.
Mine happens to be the same one I use on all of my websites as an identification and in the same manner that Yelp.com brands its logo on my Facebook page and elsewhere, but maybe Yelp.com should include a visible Swastika.
From Yelp's website, "Hi Bob, do you want to use information from your Facebook profile to make sign up faster?" Yelp requested and was granted an interface with my Facebook page where Yelp's corporate logo has subsequently been plastered whenever a review was published - "commercial or promotional purposes"? On my Facebook page there is a food photograph section with the same identical reviews in the comment boxes that are/were published on Yelp.com.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has never raised an objection to my website's content. Like so many other websites, Yelp.com seeks out these social networking interfaces with the intent of harvesting marketing data and whatever financial crumbs are offered by Facebook. To that end, Yelp.com solicits its customers to weave a web of links between Yelp.com with Facebook,
Twitter and other social media websites. Yelp.com socially engineers its website to cause its customers to self-promote their information with Yelp.com's own requirements to publish their personal website address like mine at www.BobLevin.org, their location and other personal information. A writer signs their name as a copyright or credit for a photograph. Clearly Yelp.com is culpable for duplicity and double standards regarding interfacing on the internet that is rightly referred to as "the web." The entirety of this too often mixed messaging through electronic media has become the universe where anti-trust
laws are subverted by monopoly corporations that actively consume the small businesses that I have attempted to protect, support and promote. Globalized Corporate Fascism is the new face of the world's nations, but I refuse on my life to ever
take a knee to today's "Blackshirts" or "Brownshirts" Sturmabteilung - may they quickly find their special places in hell.
Actually Yelp.com should pay me for gracing their website with my reviews as a person functioning with a permanent physical
disability incurred from two traumas endured in the line of duty during clandestine national service. Yelp.com should immediately reinstate my account and if they have a specific problem in the future, it would behoove them to communicate with me in advance of taking erroneous action with an ambiguous and castrated response.
www.BobLevin.org
See the Facebook food photo section and the series of articles on Scribd titled Gladiator of the Wok.
Manifesto: On Thursday, May 26, 2011 and two weeks after communicating my interest in a job opening through the Yelp.com website, Yelp unmasked itself as another dreck fascist corporation by closing my account without warning or provocation. This in the face of my fervent support for the reemergence of mom and pop small businesses within the Portland, Oregon and San Francisco Bay Area. Given my well-known status as a validated FBI Whistleblower, Yelp.com knew or should have known that it was acting as a participant in ongoing illegal Cointelpro operations with the Mens Rae, Actus Reus and Resulting Harm of violating my Constitutional 1st Amendment Rights to Freedom of Speech and a Free Press. Under something cousin to the evolved methods of McCarthyism, I remain tortured as a blacklisted American citizens sanctioned in political retribution by a clandestine neutralization campaign. - Bob Levin
Re: Notice of complaint against Yelp.com for violations of the Oregon Unlawful Trade Practices Act [UTPA], duplicitous Selective Enforcement, the Unlawful use of a Communication Facility, and for violating my Constitutional
1st Amendment rights of freedom of speech and a free press.
To Whom It May Concern:
This companion complaint is being simultaneous filed with a request for investigatory action from the Oregon Department of Justice, the American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU, Oregon] and the Federal Communications Commission.
Today without warning or provocation Yelp.com closed my account. This lawless action possesses the same color of sanctions that have been targeted against me as a validated FBI Whistleblower patriot for over a decade. Yelp.com has mirrored the fractionalizing methods of ongoing illegal Cointelpro operations and the blacklisting tactics of a clandestine neutralization
campaign that is something cousin to evolved McCarthyism.
Primarily I have used Yelp.com as a creative writing outlet to help promote the reemergence of mom and pop small businesses around Portland, Oregon and the Bay Area with mostly fun reviews concerning food and restaurants.
On this exhaustingly long day while still believing my Yelp.com account was active, no less than three people in the Portland area, stated they were going to read my reviews during the evening with the intent of dining at those restaurants.
I'm a professional writer and journalist who publishes in my own voice while unrestricted by a corporate employer and I am not offended when someone makes a constructive criticism concerning my work. Writing is like breathing for me and a process that sometimes requires a rewrite to craft the best work.
After weeks of positive feedback from other writers, private citizens and restaurant owners with several requesting personal
meetings, the only negative reaction that I've experienced on Yelp.com came the other day when a person published a negative piece of drivel regarding my latest Chinese restaurant review. Elsewhere that same person gave rated Shari's
Restaurants with five stars, because they gave him a free pie with his sandwich.
It caused me to remember the childhood book "George the Pig" with George eating so many doughnuts be blew up and turned into a giant doughnut.
Two weeks ago I had expressed an interest in a Yelp.com position in Vancouver, Canada and was blindsided and stymied by this unwarranted attack by their dotcom corporation. Among 148 emails today alone, I discovered this redacted section within Yelp's TOS email: "Our Support team has determined that your account has violated Yelp's Terms of Service, specifically
for using your account for commercial or promotional purposes. In other words, Yelp.com criminally practices Selective Enforcement to violate the U.S. Constitutional 1st Amendment with their Unlawful Use of a Communication Facility and while
trampling the Oregon Unlawful Trade Practices Act. Moreover the closing of my Yelp.com account is a reverse tactic that directly harms the financial wellbeing of the businesses that I have reviewed on Yelp.com. This hypocrisy by Yelp.com obliviously demonstrates an agenda by their objection to firsthand experiences and facts written in a creative
and enjoyable manner.
In the same manner that YouTube was purchased by Google, Inc. or Skype by Microsoft, it seems possible that Yelp.com is
expanding on the backs of its citizen reviewers to show a globalizing demographic, only to sell-off their labors to a hungry monopoly sometime in the future. Possibly Yelp.com is seeking to be purchased by Walmart since their action against me
does not coincide with their mission focus. Let's not forget that Yelp.com is no longer afforded a veil of corporate protection for its officers after the politicians wearing robes on the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are now people inside the virtual death camp of America.
Regardless and beyond this complaint, let me be the first to compliment Yelp.com for hiring the emotionally handicapped on their TOS Support Team, because lobotomy patients are people too. However I would like to know Yelp.com's specific examples of how I violated any terms of service agreement by mindfully publishing reviews in support of small businesses. Additionally, I am in the processes of notifying each of those business's owners that my reviews have not only been pulled, but my entire Yelp.com account closed without specific reason. Several of my readers have already voiced negative outrage towards this anti-American act by Yelp.com.
Yelp.com's own website solicits for commercial or promotional purposes through by the information requested and the social
network interfacing required by Yelp.com; lest we forget the commercial or promotional business reviews the website is designed for. The Yelp.com user with an account is also asked to upload their personal photograph, logo or avatar.
Mine happens to be the same one I use on all of my websites as an identification and in the same manner that Yelp.com brands its logo on my Facebook page and elsewhere, but maybe Yelp.com should include a visible Swastika.
From Yelp's website, "Hi Bob, do you want to use information from your Facebook profile to make sign up faster?" Yelp requested and was granted an interface with my Facebook page where Yelp's corporate logo has subsequently been plastered whenever a review was published - "commercial or promotional purposes"? On my Facebook page there is a food photograph section with the same identical reviews in the comment boxes that are/were published on Yelp.com.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has never raised an objection to my website's content. Like so many other websites, Yelp.com seeks out these social networking interfaces with the intent of harvesting marketing data and whatever financial crumbs are offered by Facebook. To that end, Yelp.com solicits its customers to weave a web of links between Yelp.com with Facebook,
Twitter and other social media websites. Yelp.com socially engineers its website to cause its customers to self-promote their information with Yelp.com's own requirements to publish their personal website address like mine at www.BobLevin.org, their location and other personal information. A writer signs their name as a copyright or credit for a photograph. Clearly Yelp.com is culpable for duplicity and double standards regarding interfacing on the internet that is rightly referred to as "the web." The entirety of this too often mixed messaging through electronic media has become the universe where anti-trust
laws are subverted by monopoly corporations that actively consume the small businesses that I have attempted to protect, support and promote. Globalized Corporate Fascism is the new face of the world's nations, but I refuse on my life to ever
take a knee to today's "Blackshirts" or "Brownshirts" Sturmabteilung - may they quickly find their special places in hell.
Actually Yelp.com should pay me for gracing their website with my reviews as a person functioning with a permanent physical
disability incurred from two traumas endured in the line of duty during clandestine national service. Yelp.com should immediately reinstate my account and if they have a specific problem in the future, it would behoove them to communicate with me in advance of taking erroneous action with an ambiguous and castrated response.
www.BobLevin.org
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