<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bdw5204</author><text>It wasn&amp;#x27;t exactly successful in silencing the victim but one of the car companies did this to Ralph Nader when he was investigating their products for Unsafe at Any Speed.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m honestly surprised that any company would still do this sort of thing to critics after how that turned out back in the 60s. When the harassment of Nader was discovered, it put extra momentum behind the push for car safety legislation that cost the car companies lots of money and saved countless lives. Nader was then able to get lots of additional consumer safety laws passed in the 70s. Maybe they just think themselves so powerful after decades of successfully buying politicians that they think they can now get away with this kind of thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>polytely</author><text>Makes you really wonder if this was an isolated incident or if there are other cases of these tactics that were successful in silencing the victims.&lt;p&gt;Makes me think of the series DEVS where a big Silicon Valley company also uses their security force in a similar manner, I never thought that would be the part that was the most accurate.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s scary that this happened at Ebay, I dread to think what kind of shit a company with the funds of google or facebook could pull off.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them</title><url>https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/31/business/it-has-be-known-what-was-done-us-natick-couple-harassed-by-ebay-tell-their-story-first-time/?p1=Article_Feed_ContentQuery</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throw_m239339</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not uncommon for corporations to hire PI and target certain clients&amp;#x2F;customers&amp;#x2F;competitors ,for petty reasons or even to dig dirt on them, and it might count as stalking yes. One day when I&amp;#x27;m retired I might tell my story.&lt;p&gt;But this case is just one step above all that. Who knows what these employees and executives did to others before, I hardly believe this was an isolated case at eBay.</text><parent_chain><item><author>polytely</author><text>Makes you really wonder if this was an isolated incident or if there are other cases of these tactics that were successful in silencing the victims.&lt;p&gt;Makes me think of the series DEVS where a big Silicon Valley company also uses their security force in a similar manner, I never thought that would be the part that was the most accurate.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s scary that this happened at Ebay, I dread to think what kind of shit a company with the funds of google or facebook could pull off.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them</title><url>https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/31/business/it-has-be-known-what-was-done-us-natick-couple-harassed-by-ebay-tell-their-story-first-time/?p1=Article_Feed_ContentQuery</url></story>