Perhaps a 'truth in forums' regulation should require all comments to be accessible, with the reason for their removal from standard view being indicated? That way removal of all negative comments could be monitored and consumers would have sufficient information to moderate their trust in companies advertising.
I reported one of the 'miracle showerheads' to UK Trading Standards [it was possibly ASA?] as it clearly gave false (physically impossible) claims. I was seeing lots of their ads on FB and people were clearly falling for it.
They reported back that it was a foreign company and so they couldn't do anything. Which is weird because they're allowed to advertise to me, so they should have to follow the rules. Also, they had a UK Trademark, which seems a major flaw - protect the trade of scammers but don't hold them to account.
I reported one of the 'miracle showerheads' to UK Trading Standards [it was possibly ASA?] as it clearly gave false (physically impossible) claims. I was seeing lots of their ads on FB and people were clearly falling for it.
They reported back that it was a foreign company and so they couldn't do anything. Which is weird because they're allowed to advertise to me, so they should have to follow the rules. Also, they had a UK Trademark, which seems a major flaw - protect the trade of scammers but don't hold them to account.