American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review
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Re: American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review
#2What a ridiculous situation. The guy was arrested and brought to the minuscole island because of a defamation suit. Imagine that.
The article is quite light on details, so here’s another one that also links to the full response by the hotel owners: https://mothership.sg/2020/09/sea-view-resort-defamation-law...
Re: American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review
#3> Thailand's notorious anti-defamation laws have long drawn scrutiny from human rights and press freedom groups, who say powerful players use it as a weapon to stifle free expression.
> The maximum sentence is two years in prison, along with a 200,000 baht ($6,300) fine.
> Earlier this year, a Thai journalist was sentenced to two years in prison for posting a tweet referencing a dispute over working conditions at a chicken farm owned by the Thammakaset company.
The American is currently out on bail.
Re: American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review
#4What a ridiculous situation. The guy was arrested and brought to the minuscole island because of a defamation suit. Imagine that. The article is quite light on details, so here’s another one that also links to the full response by the hotel owners: https://mothership.sg/2020/09/sea-view-resort-defamation-law...
Ridiculous to you.. not so ridiculous to me. Lies can affect peoples lives & livelihood in catastrophic ways. He tried to harm some people and they asked for the protection of the law. To me there's nothing ridiculous there.
Re: American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review
#5What a ridiculous situation. The guy was arrested and brought to the minuscole island because of a defamation suit. Imagine that. The article is quite light on details, so here’s another one that also links to the full response by the hotel owners: https://mothership.sg/2020/09/sea-view-resort-defamation-law...
Ridiculous to you.. not so ridiculous to me. Lies can affect peoples lives & livelihood in catastrophic ways. He tried to harm some people and they asked for the protection of the law. To me there's nothing ridiculous there.
Perhaps he was warning people about an actually bad place?
Re: American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ridiculous to you.. not so ridiculous to me. Lies can affect peoples lives & livelihood in catastrophic ways. He tried to harm some people and they asked for the protection of the law. To me there's nothing ridiculous there.
Perhaps he was warning people about an actually bad place?
Perhaps you have not read enough of the available information ?
Re: American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps he was warning people about an actually bad place?
Perhaps you have not read enough of the available information ?
I read the article. It sounded like he had a really bad experience at the Sea View Resort (on Wesley Barnes), so left reviews at lots of places warning people.
That's literally the whole point of writing reviews. To let others know what places are good, bad, etc.
Hopefully more people find out about the stupid treatment of this guy by the resort, as taking legal action against an ex-customer for giving bad reviews is far beyond reasonable.
Re: American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review
#8Thailand is a shithole, who would go there in the first place?
Re: American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps you have not read enough of the available information ?
I read the article. It sounded like he had a really bad experience at the Sea View Resort (on Wesley Barnes), so left reviews at lots of places warning people. That's literally the whole point of writing reviews. To let others know what places are good, bad, etc. Hopefully more people find out about the stupid treatment of this guy by the resort, as taking legal action against an ex-customer for giving bad reviews is…
This is opposite of Streisand effect. It's turning out to be terrific free publicity for this island resort with 4.5 stars on Trip Advisor, and actually portrays the resort as victim of a loser guest who was asked to pay a standard corkage fee, refused, then went off and accused the resort of slavery. I mean, just the top image on the Yahoo link, of a gorgeous beachfront, looks pretty great right now.
Here's a tip, when you visit, or move to, a foreign country, expect to live by its laws, not the laws of the country you left.
Re: American sued in Thailand over negative Tripadvisor review
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I read the article. It sounded like he had a really bad experience at the Sea View Resort (on Wesley Barnes), so left reviews at lots of places warning people. That's literally the whole point of writing reviews. To let others know what places are good, bad, etc. Hopefully more people find out about the stupid treatment of this guy by the resort, as taking legal action against an ex-customer for giving bad reviews is…
This is opposite of Streisand effect. It's turning out to be terrific free publicity for this island resort with 4.5 stars on Trip Advisor, and actually portrays the resort as victim of a loser guest who was asked to pay a standard corkage fee, refused, then went off and accused the resort of slavery. I mean, just the top image on the Yahoo link, of a gorgeous beachfront, looks pretty great right now. Here's a tip, w…
> It's turning out to be terrific free publicity for this island resort ...
Let me guess. They've had all of the negative reviews deleted, by threatening to put more people in jail?
That's one way to do it...