Disclaimer
Not an attorney, not legal advice, and every policy quoted here carries the date it was read
I am not an attorney
Bill Hartzer is not an attorney and does not practice law. Whether a statement about a business or a person is legally defamatory, whether a claim should be brought, what such a claim might be worth, and what to do in a courtroom are questions for a defamation attorney licensed in the relevant jurisdiction.
Nothing on this site is legal advice. Reading it, writing to me, or receiving a reply creates no attorney-client relationship — there is none available to create — and no professional engagement of any other kind. Where a page describes what a legal process requires or what a court has held, it is reporting a fact about a published document, not advising anyone on what to do about it.
Platform policies carry the date they were read
Where a page here says what a platform does, it quotes that operator's own published wording, gives the operator's update date where the page carries one, and gives the date the page was read. The operator policy pages quoted across this site were read on 12 August 2026.
That dating is not decoration. Operators rewrite these pages constantly and without announcement: rules are added, categories disappear, forms are retired, and entire help articles are replaced between one month and the next. A statement about a platform with no date attached is worth very little, including a statement on this site once enough time has passed. Before you act on anything described here, open the operator's current page and read it yourself. If what you find differs from what is written here, what you find is right.
No outcome is promised
Nothing here should be read as an assurance that any particular content can be removed, suppressed, deindexed, corrected or answered successfully. Those decisions rest with platform operators, publishers, search engines and courts, and none of them is controlled by me or by anyone quoting you a fee.
Several operators say so in their own words on their own help pages, and those statements are quoted around this site precisely because they are more persuasive than anything I could assert.
General information, not advice about your situation
Every matter turns on its facts: what was said, where it sits, who runs that service, when it appeared, what was preserved, and what has already been sent. A page written for a general readership cannot account for any of that, and acting on one without checking how it applies to your own circumstances is how avoidable mistakes get made — including the sort that make a situation worse.
Sources cited here
Regulations, court opinions, operator policies and published research are cited so a reader can check them rather than take my word for it. Those documents belong to their publishers, they are quoted for reference, and what appears at those addresses may change or move. Where a study is named, its sample and its limits are named with it, because a figure lifted away from what it actually measured is the most common error in this field.