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Public statement source · YT379
Google Protects BUTCHER TABAN
the review-suppression allegation, naming both tracked defendants, six months before the Google action was filed. the payoff allegation against Google, generalised to "other plastic surgeons".
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man I don't even think my review was live for a few days before tabon got his buddies at Google to remove it as all he cares about is butchering your face to pad his wallet now my review is visible to me when I'm logged into Google and it has 46 likes so it should be at the top of the page for anyone but in any other browser when I'm not logged in poof my review is magically gone
The strongest quote among those researched from this video. It states, on a dated public record, the specific factual allegation that later underlies the tracked Google action — that a negative review he wrote was removed from public view at the surgeon's instance — and it names both sides of it: Google (with Alphabet Inc, all tracked defendants) and Taban (captioned "tabon"). It also supplies a checkable operational detail: the review shows 46 likes when logged in and is absent when logged out. He describes no filing conduct — no case, court, docket, judge or lawyer is named anywhere in the video, and no suit against Google existed yet. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)
this guy tan and probably other plastic surgeons have connections at Google or are paying them off to remove the negative reviews
The mechanism he alleges, stated explicitly — payment or "connections" between plastic surgeons and Google to suppress negative reviews — and generalised beyond his own case ("probably other plastic surgeons"). This is the theory of the action, in lay terms, half a year before it was filed. Note the hedge: "connections or are paying them off" and "probably other plastic surgeons" are his own qualifiers and should not be dropped when quoting. No filing conduct described. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)
if I saw what this guy did to other people it would have been completely off the table and if anyone sees what this guy did to my face they would run from his office even after paying him a deposit
The causal bridge between the two tracked disputes as he frames them: the alleged review suppression (the Google / RealSelf litigation) is what led to the alleged surgical injury (the eye-surgery dispute). “It would have been completely off the table” is a reliance statement — he says he would not have had the procedure had he seen the suppressed material. That framing is what makes a search-platform defendant plausible to him at all, and it is here on a dated record before either platform action existed. No filing conduct described. The tier is Moderate, with no filing-conduct factor.
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2025-05634 — Tufano v. GoogleTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:00 researched as bearing on this case: the review-suppression allegation, naming both tracked defendants, six months before the Google action was filed.
3:25-cv-01574 — Tufano v. Google LLC et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:00 researched as bearing on this case: the review-suppression allegation, naming both tracked defendants, six months before the Google action was filed.