Disloyal Opposition
by JD Tuccille
"Forget Consumer Reports -- the Internet bypasses professional
reviewers.and lets regular people share their experiences with
everything from cars to hotels to police officers. But not everybody
likes to have bad reviews of their performance available to the
public. In Florida, cops got their pet politicians to pass a law
making it legally perilous to get too specific when giving thumbs-down
to uniformed arm-twisters. That law is now a thing of the past, tossed
out as a First amendment violation by a federal judge." (05/04/10)