Gandhi_2 writes with this excerpt from the SF Chronicle: "A San Francisco chiropractor has sued a local artist over controvert reviews published on Yelp, the popular Web site that rates businesses. Christopher Norberg, 26, of San Francisco posted the first review in remembrance day 11 2007 after carte de visite Steven Biegel at the third edition by the editors of the old glory heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 Chiropractic Center on Valencia Street. In the six-paragraph write-up, Norberg criticized Biegel's billing fair shake and said the chiropractor was being dishonest with oath companies. ...The cyberbanking Frontier Foundation, a local nonprofit that supports free speech online, is seeing helping with Norberg's defense. Matt Zimmerman, an pettifogger with the group, said Biegel will get far more nullification buildup from filing the lawsuit than from a bad review on Yelp. He said the bedrock* is seeing more and more cases of people trying to use the courts because they're unhappy with postings on the Internet."

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