There are many companies that do not accept criticism; not even if those criticisms, however acidic or offensive they sound, are true. That was what happened to two companies accused by crowd of people scamming over the phone elderly and vulnerable people. The complaints of the affected users were published on the website of ListaSpam.com, and the companies decided to sue the website on which the criticisms had been made. Fortunately, justice has been served.
This was announced today ListSpam, in a legal process that began in 2017. The two telemarketing companies that reported the web were Bennu AGMC and Iberhome 2015, and both were accused by many users of calling vulnerable people on the phone and promising them a free gift, which was generally an express pot.
That gift was delivered to the person’s home by a commercial of those companies, but in exchange the commercial I was trying sell other items, like encyclopedias, book collections or mattresses, at very high prices and with abusive financing.
ListaSpam was sued by its users
The children of those affected soon began to criticize both companies on websites such as ListaSpam.com, after they saw that their relatives had bought products with a price well above the market price. Insults such as “Scammers,” “dupes,” “scammers,” “trash,” and “sons of bitches”.
Since 2017 there have been several lawsuits, which ListaSpam has won in full. However, companies have been resorting to them, and now finally the Supreme court has passed sentence, endorsing the comments of the users and agreeing with the website.
Freedom of expression prevails
According to the judge, criticism of the way companies act must be known to public opinion, and in this case the fundamental right to freedom of expression. In addition, the existence of the need for a public debate on the legality or morality of these practices is also recognized, hence the protection of being able to deal with them on a website with free access to users.
The companies they asked for 12,000 euros from ListaSpam for attack on your honor, in addition to deleting all the negative comments that there were of them on the web. Now, companies will have to pay court costs.
Websites like ListaSpam are very important on the web, as they allow us to quickly check a phone number to see if it is a scam, or if it is instead a trustworthy phone number such as a company delivery that you have to bring us a package.
Some companies use the technique of calling from dozens or even hundreds of different phone numbers to try mislead users and bypass locks that are usually imposed on these numbers, and in many cases violating the Robinson List. Unfortunately for them, practically all of them have their corresponding comments on websites like ListaSpam.