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Plot twist: Cory Doctorow gets paid by the restaurant to promote them. He then made the fake website and bought the Google ads in order to concoct this outrage story to go viral.

I mean, if this is a "great Thai restaurant in my neighborhood", how likely is it he ordered there yesterday for the first time?

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Do you have perfect recall of every restaurant's website? Even if you do, surely one of them changed their site at some point.

You're probably joking, but even if you do order from a place a couple times a year it can be hard to tell which site is theirs. A local restaurant for me at one point had two different websites, each featured different indoor pictures of the location and their food. I never knew if I should use the new one or the old one, with the problem being solved when they retired and the new owners renamed the place.

Yes, I was joking, should have made that more obvious.

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