Jessaka
Jessaka asked Manny Rayner:

Actually, I see that what I wrote was private, so I want to ask you about something. one of my GR friends wrote a review on a book, giving it five stars, but she must have revealed more of the techniques that were in the book than maybe she should have, and so the author threatened her with a lawsuit, so she took down her review instead of making all the changes the author wanted her to make.is this acceptable?

Manny Rayner Hi Jessaka! I would be surprised to find that GR's rules allow authors to threaten reviewers with lawsuits over reviews they don't like unless they are obviously libelling them, issuing death threats, or doing something else that could plausibly be illegal. Your friend might want to report the author to the GR admins.

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