Today I was reading about this drama between two people where in a nutshell the smaller guy published some critique against a larger company’s products where it seemed like everything was fact based. They were essentially saying the product wasn’t very good in their opinion. Fair game as it is no different in many ways from a regular consumer giving an opinion or review of a product. But this was the surprising thing where instead of simply addressing the criticism the company literally decided to bully the smaller company with legal threats that have no merit.
It’s essentially one of those tactics where the hope is you try and drown someone into an expensive legal process where even though the party is completely innocent they may give up due to financial pressure. I guess fortunately the person actually is trying to fight it. But for who knows how long?
It got me thinking as a person on the outside watching I can’t help but to dislike that larger company. It makes you wonder what is the point in doing that? Sure, they may silence the person but everyone in the public can see it for what it is to the point where that is probably way more damaging than the fair criticism. Maybe certain businesses truly do think people aren’t that smart. You don’t have to play nice, but you definitely shouldn’t play dirty in my opinion.