They're crawling your pages, collecting your content and reselling it raw/repackaged to their customers. Why should they reap the rewards from your bandwidth without sending you any human traffic or otherwise compensating you?
I'm not a lawyer and this is only my personal opinion, but I think that mentioning a brand on a website isn't trademark infringement and falls under fair use. There are plenty of criticism sites out there that would be shut down if that weren't the case.
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