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Media embargoes artificially control public review timing

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If a product is terrible, companies legally forbid you from knowing about it until launch day. PR firms enforce strict legal agreements on reviewers, strictly holding back all criticism until consumers have already pre-ordered the garbage product based purely on heavily manipulated marketing hype.

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