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Comment by spellboots | Hacker News Reader

How ridiculous. This post sounds like a pair of children fighting. And whilst your client seems very annoying, calling them terrorists for opting to exercise their perfectly valid rights to (a) engage you in legal proceedings and (b) write about their experience and publicise this writing make you look a lot less professional that they do.

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To be fair threatening to have your 'SEO staffers aggressively hit the forums and ratings hubs' seems a bit beyond standard writing about someone. It seems more like they're threatening to flood with lots of reports of bad service, where only one would really be an honest reflection of an experience that successfully picks out the company involved.

Which seems more akin to fraud than honest reviewing.

Fraud, yes. Terrorism, no.

I don't disagree, they seem like bullies who think they can threaten their way out of something they've given their word on - but that's not necessarily terrorism for all that it seems a similar approach in some respects.

I take the article to have been more a play on Reagan's statement than anything else:

"If you’re able to remember back to the days when Ronald Reagan was President of the United States, he issues a warning that the United States would not negotiate with terrorists, a policy that has been maintained to this day.

We state this reminder only to explain that we treat our policies in the same manner."

Maybe people here are just to young to remember the Reagan 80s and can't make the metaphorical leap?

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