{"id":17794,"date":"2015-03-17T10:23:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T14:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=17794"},"modified":"2015-03-17T10:23:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T14:23:20","slug":"yelp-the-story-that-wont-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/yelp-the-story-that-wont-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelp &#8211; The Story that Won&#8217;t Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bold Italic is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebolditalic.com\/articles\/7063-new-documentary-slams-yelp-for-being-a-bully\">reporting<\/a> on a film maker that is attempting to tell the Yelp is a bully story via a documentary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Yelp gets zero stars in an upcoming documentary by local filmmaker Kaylie Milliken.\u00a0Her film,\u00a0Billion Dollar Bully (which is halfway done, according to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/yelp-movie-san-francisco-filmmaker-takes-billion-dollar-bully-1843536\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0International Business Times<\/a>)\u00a0focuses on complaints from restaurant owners about Yelp\u2019s business practices. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The doc contains interviews with business owners and lawyers who believe their ratings and those of their clients were affected by how much they were advertising \u2014 an allegation that, as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sfist.com\/2015\/03\/12\/trailer_for_local_yelp_documentary.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFist<\/a>\u00a0points out, Yelp vehemently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/officialblog.yelp.com\/2013\/12\/harvard-study-debunks-yelp-extortion-conspiracy-theory-yelp-doesnt-extort.html\" target=\"_blank\">denies<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l2dkJctUDIs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The release date has not been set. But Bold Italic reports that the filmmaker, Kaylie Miliken plans to launch a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prostfilms.com\/?page_id=145\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a>\u00a0campaign to raise the money to finish the product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bold Italic is reporting on a film maker that is attempting to tell the Yelp is a bully story via a documentary. 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