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Is Cuppy’s trying to stifle bad PR about them?
By RSS Advisor | June 12, 2007
Sean Kelly, who writes the Franchise Pick blog for b5media (where I am also and author and channel editor), has a pretty disturbing, if true, post about the coffee franchise Cuppy’s (formerly Java Jo’z).
The gist is that few months ago Scoble wrote about his brother Ben’s problems with the franchise. A tempest ensued over allegations of bad business practices from Cuppy’s. Fair enough, standard fare for the Blogosphere. The odd thing is that suddenly Scoble’s post disappeared. So did posts on both of his brothers’ blogs. Then other negative posts started disappearing and blogs critical to Cuppy’s started to have problems. To make it more interesting, comments on the LJ and Xanaga sites for Cuppy’s turned effusively glowing. There are now questions regarding the company threatening or even (maybe) bribing bloggers to delete posts or change their tune.
Sean has heard from Ben Scoble and he can’t talk about the issue, which means that some legal maneuvering has been taking place. So the question remains, what’s going on here? Is a company trying to silence critics? While there might not be any thing wrong going on here, it certainly doesn’t look good.
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