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I read an article at TheStarOnline this morning, "Google and blogger sued by curry fish head restaurant".
Excerpts:
KOTA KINABALU: The director of a fish head curry restaurant which is recommended by Lonely Planet is suing a blogger and Google for defamation.
Jothys Sdn Bhd director Tharumaraj Sivaperumal filed a RM6mil civil suit at the Kota Kinabalu High Court, naming blogger Poh Huai Bin as the first defendant and California-based Google Inc as the second defendant.
The suit filed on Monday is over allegedly defamatory statements made about Jothys Fish Head Curry Restaurant here which was posted in May last year by Poh, who is originally from Sibu, Sarawak and now resides in Kuala Lumpur.
For full article, go to TheStarOnline.
Have a good year ahead!
Cheers!
4 comments:
this shows that even in the blog there's no such thing as the freedom of speech. huhu
I believe in the FREEDOM OF CONSUMERS’ SPEECH. I believe consumer has the right to openly critic companies and their products if it is honest and/or true even though it could be defamatory or strong words which may cause the company to lose financially or their reputation, whereas the company have the right to openly challenge & dispute their critics if they are wrong.
The right of companies to sue for defamation should be severely limited, if not abolished altogether especially for food related companies or in this case restaurant. Consumers should not fear defamation suits if what they have written are true even though it is defamatory.
I am very much against the abuse of the defamation law by companies who misuse the law to silence their critics. Company exists just to make money and what they are actually protecting is their pocket. The only way to fight against companies from abusing the defamation law is to remind them about consumers’ rights and to show them that they have forgotten that their boss is their customers and their customers have the power to judge and not the courts.
Therefore, I have just set up a weblog http://malaysiadefamation.blogspot.com/ to create awareness, highlight those defamation cases in Malaysia which should never be dragged to court and to criticise on the old backdated English defamation law adopted by Malaysia courts which is totally outdated and not in line with modern law, time and society. My blog is still very new, but hopefully within time it may create some awareness and do some good for the sake of freedom.
Hi Steven, yep i do agree with u to a certain degree..i think it's our rights to voice out our opinion.
Let's see how Malaysian law will be applied in such cases.
Yep, Kak Nura..i kinda shock to read the news too cos i do read the blogger's site too quite regularly. I think it's his style to critic in that way. But yep...freedom of speech here....exist? We have to see what's the outcome of this case :)
We just have to be more tactful on being "free" to speak out here.
I agree with Steven, consumers has the right of free speech..
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