Taiwanese food blogger faces prison for defamation
June 27th, 2011
A Taiwanese blogger, identified only as Liu, was sentenced to 30 days in detention and ordered to pay NT$200,000 (about £11,000) for allegedly writing a defamatory review about a local restaurant. She blogged that the dish she had ordered was too salty and that there were cockroaches on the restaurant premises. The restaurant refuted these claims, sued, and won their claim. In Taiwan, defamation is a criminal act.Tags: Tags: blogging, criminal defamation, defamation, Taiwan,
