SACRAMENTO — State lawmakers will offer their first reviews next week of legislation that would crack down on companies using nondisparagement clauses to discourage customers from criticizing their products and services online.
Informally dubbed the “Yelp” bill, Assembly Bill 2365 would bar a retailer or service provider from forcing customers to waive their rights to comment on their experiences with a business “unless the waiver was knowing, voluntary, and intelligent.” Customers, the attorney general and district attorneys could sue violators for as-yet-specified civil penalties under the bill.
