After a restaurant successfully sued a blogger over a
critical review, is this a sign that influential blogs could soon be forced to
censor their opnions?
Blogs-
like social media- are a platform for anyone to express their views. Obviously
there must be some limitations to this but if you feel strongly enough to
criticise something then chances are it reflects a genuinely bad experience at
the hands of a business of some sort. This week a blogger was successfully sued
by a French restaurant who claimed their business had been adversely affected
by a critical post whose title described the eaterie as ` the place to avoid `
after a poor experience there. A French judge ordered the blogger to alter the
title of the post and pay damages to the restaurant. Could this spur other
enterprises angered by influential blog criticisms to take similar action?
