“San Fran­cis­can Christo­pher Nor­berg went to a chi­ro­prac­tor after being injured in a car acci­dent in 2006. After a dis­agree­ment with the chi­ro­prac­tor over billing, he posted a neg­a­tive review of the busi­ness on Yelp sug­gest­ing that the doc­tor was dis­hon­est. Now he is fac­ing a defama­tion law­suit that could chill self-​​expression on the pop­u­lar gripe Web site. CNET News reports it here.”

“Even more excit­ing, how­ever, is that Ghosts I-​​IV is ranked the best sell­ing MP3 album of 2008 on Amazon’s MP3 store.

Take a moment and think about that.”

“These busi­nesses have the right to sup­port what­ever bal­lot mea­sures they want, but fair-​​minded cit­i­zens of all sex­ual ori­en­ta­tions also have the right to take their money else­where and not patron­ize busi­nesses that sup­port big­otry. This site is not a witch-​​hunt but is a tool intended to help peo­ple make informed deci­sions when they shop for prod­ucts and ser­vices. This site hopes to over­come some of the lim­i­ta­tions of exist­ing Prop 8 donor data­bases on the web and in time hopes to become a use­ful repos­i­tory of all com­pa­nies in the U.S. with anti-​​gay policies.

Using pub­licly avail­able infor­ma­tion from the Cal­i­for­nia Sec­re­tary of State’s web­site, Dont​BuyFrom​Big​ots​.com strives to be the most com­pre­hen­sive business-​​specific list­ing of donors to Prop 8. This site is a work in progress cre­ated and main­tained in the spare time of one per­son, so for­give the spar­tan appear­ance. Con­tact me if you want to help improve the website.”