# Writing fake online reviews could be made illegal

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**Category:** In The News\
**Tags:** via-bbc-news-tech, writing\
**Created:** [23 July 2021 02:29 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/writing-fake-online-reviews-could-be-made-illegal/14341 "2021-07-23T02:29:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [23 July 2021 15:44 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/writing-fake-online-reviews-could-be-made-illegal/14341/5 "2021-07-23T15:44:02Z")

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Amazon are not too bad when it comes to writing your own reviews - they’ve never censored any of mine… but others (like Waitrose!) are really bad, sometimes they give you a ‘money off voucher’ to keep you quiet as well 😂

> [@ohm](#):
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> I believe it is in Denmark as well.

It might be worth checking… I always thought it was here, but clearly turned out not to be (if the BBC are right).

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