Blogger in Taiwan Jailed for Calling Food "Too Salty"

Dallas Observer ^ | 23 June 2011 | Alice Laussade

[smokingfrog]

On Tuesday, a blogger in Taiwan was sentenced to a month of detention and two years probation for writing that a restaurant's beef noodles were "too salty."

"The Taichung branch of Taiwan High Court on Tuesday sentenced a blogger who wrote that a restaurant's beef noodles were too salty to 30 days in detention and two years of probation and ordered her to pay NT$200,000 in compensation to the restaurant."

The Taichung District Court ruled that the blogger, surnamed Liu, made comments that "exceeded reasonable bounds." Apparently, she wrote that the food at a Taichung beef noodle restaurant was too salty and that she saw cockroaches there while she was eating her dried noodles and side dishes.

Calling a restaurant's food "too salty" is "exceeding reasonable bounds?" Insatiable Critic Gael Greene would be so totally screwed in Taiwan. And we're pretty sure the cockroaches Liu saw crawling around in that restaurant were the ones "exceeding reasonable bounds" in this case.

Yang, the restaurant owner who filed charges against Liu, hoped this case would "teach her a lesson."

[smokingfrog]

From the Taipei Times:

[realpatriot]

And we want to defend Taiwan from China WHY???

They need to think how this type of stuff plays out over here!

[I Shall Endure]

Taiwan is hardly the only country that privileges safeguarding one’s reputation over “truth.” The U.K.’s libel laws do the same thing. In some ways, it surely makes for a civilized way of life. Except that lack of accountability breeds corruption....

[tlb]

>>> Blogger in Taiwan Jailed for Calling Food “Too Salty”

Mayor Bloomberg tomorrow announces New York City will hold a tickertape parade for the blogger upon his availability. A fellow warrior in the crusade against salt may expect a greater reception then Charles Lindbergh.

[Revolting cat!]