The closing of Bali (original), Jade, Blue, Number One, Red Rose (original), Luxury, and more, definitely predate your membership date. What you should be familiar with is the Wellness Center in Plano last November. The stories, and actual filing, show you what Mental was referencing, i.e. Reviews have consequences, or at least, can become Exhibits in Legal Actions.This is very helpful. Note what the city does here. It does not file a lawsuit trying to make a case that illegal acts occur. Instead it makes a motion for *presuit* discovery. That is a much lower standard of proof. That allows the city to (1) force the business to pay a bunch of legal fees to respond and (2) go on a fishing expedition, going through the owner's cell phone, email, business records, etc looking for a violation. The city may see who the owner corresponds with etc. The city uses online "reviews" to show a judge that there is a good reason to go fishing. Most owners would just fold and quit under this kind o pressure.
Two (of many) News stories about the Wellness Center action.
https://planomagazine.com/plano-pros...ssage-parlors/
https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/...rlors-17997047
Facebook Users' Commenting on the Plano action.
https://www.facebook.com/PlanoTexasP...6609581838088/
The filed Petition against Wellness Center.
https://content.civicplus.com/api/as...uTR7YOhaHUF04g
Hope that helps y'all, and, Bless your Heart. Originally Posted by TexomaCowboy
That allows the city to...go on a fishing expeditionA "fishing expedition" conjures up visions of randomly throwing your line, and maybe you will catch something. But the experienced and seasoned fisherman knows where the fish are, based upon water temp, sunlight, time of day, and...his Garmin GPSMAP 8617 17" Chartplotter.
To date nobody in Oklahoma has been charged for writing a review in Oklahoma.Why? Maybe this stupid law is unenforceable . Granted no one wants to be the test case. Yet, it does bring up a few of those pesky "rights".City attorneys just want to win cases a make their city money. Cases like these take too much time and effort. Originally Posted by Xrasman1.....but that won't stop ECCIE from getting rid of the Texas forum all together like the Oklahoma forum. If such a law was passed in Texas, where would the Texas reviews and information be posted after that in reference to this website?
I guess you don't want to do some research for yourself and I'm not going to do it for you. We can agree to disagree and that's ok.Link to that statute, for those interested.
I hope that Texas doesn't follow Oklahoma as far as making it illegal to write online reviews in regards to service. It might be the next move for Texas and it wouldn't surprise me. That's the reason why there isn't an Oklahoma section on this website. ECCIE got rid of it and I'm sure if Texas did this it would be over for Texas on this website too.
In 2023, 21 OK Stat § 1040.57 was passed to make it illegal to publish reviews of prostitution-related services on websites that facilitate, encourage, or promote sexual contact for a fee. Originally Posted by Mental AtrraXXXion
.....but that won't stop ECCIE from getting rid of the Texas forum all together like the Oklahoma forum. If such a law was passed in Texas, where would the Texas reviews and information be posted after that in reference to this website?I presume we would follow the Okies and all just move to Connecticut?
Frankly it would "F" things up here. Originally Posted by Mental AtrraXXXion