Taiwanese Food Blogger Fined For Bad Review

Think twice before posting that bad review on Yelp–at least, if you’re in Taiwan (and if they have a version of Yelp there). Liu, a Taiwanese food blogger, found her dish at a restaurant so unsatisfactory that she wrote what the owner believed was a slanderous review and filed charges. The judges agreed: “Liu wrote that the restaurant served food that was too salty, the place was unsanitary because there were cockroaches and that the owner was a ‘bully…The High Court found that Liu’s criticism about cockroaches in the restaurant to be a narration of facts, not intentional slander. However, the judge also ruled that Liu should not have criticized all the restaurant’s food as too salty because she only had one dish on her single visit.”