Introducing the Consumer Protection Database: Expose exploitation & hold companies accountable!

https://youtu.be/apMYh0a4qXo

Louis Rossmann is making a wiki to help people hold companies accountable for anti-consumer behavior.

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13 Comments

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 35 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Assuming this gains traction, I don't see how they'll prevent it from being abused with targeted misinformation, short of manually reviewing and approving every new article and every edit.

reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 1y

Absolutely agree with that. He does have a lot of experience dealing with right to repair and all that so here's hoping he knows how to handle it correctly.

essteeyou@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

That is how wikis work.

tabular@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Like a dedicated ’Controversy’ section on Wikipedia but for the modern consumer/end user protection. This gonna’ be good.

reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y

Spread the word if you can. The more eyes this can reach, the better it will be for everyone.

witty_username@feddit.nl · 16 pts · 1y

Great idea and a great person to take it up

LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I love the name "Consumer Action Taskforce" for CAT, some artwork and images would be nice, but that can be a feature that the user can choose if they want to, obviously to lower the bandwidth costs.

LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Going to be a big list. Hope he's got enough storage space.

reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

I'm honestly not too worried. At least he has a good idea of what he's doing.

putitoutwithyourbootsted@piefed.social · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I think they call this the Better Business Bureau. But I definitely would not put all stock in BBB as a single source for this information.

hansolo@lemm.ee · 35 pts · 1y

In theory, but in practice the BBB is usually a pay-to-play sort of racket where as long as a member doesn't have active litigation happening, you can likely swing an A+ rating and still be a terrible company. It's business oriented, not consumer.

reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y

I have no idea really. I just wanted to get the word out. The more people that know about this and help, the better it will become.