Yelp cancels accounts instead of providing content warnings

Yelp canceled my account for posting that a few area restaurants server shark fin soup. I was posting an honest opinion and without any warning, my account was cancelled. Yelp claims "real reviews by real people" but they clearly are not interested in living-up to that if it offends the restaurants that are being reviewed?

 

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  Cookie Monster replied on August 28, 2008 19:05

  Pompous jerks! They cancelled my account claiming it was "created by automated means", which seems to be their solution to getting rid of accounts of people they don't like or don't fit their demographics, which seems to be stupid horny single alcoholic yuppies between the ages of puberty and 25.

   

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  andy replied on September 10, 2008 02:06

  canceled my account also after I spent the time creating over 100 real reviews...they were funny as hell too... I really dislike yelp

   

  
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