THe other day, I blogged about the threats my friend
Herkko Heitanen had received from Lehtovaara, a restaurant in
Helsinki. Herkko had crappy service at the restaurant one day, and
blogged about it. Years later, the restauranteur (who is also an
attorney) threatened to sue him and demanded 80,000 Euros in damages.
Herkko blogged about the threat, which has since been picked up by
the press, so that now now everyone knows what a jerk this
restauranteur is.
Here’s an excerpt from an interview the suit-happy bully did with
Helsingin Sanomat:
Why are you basing your claims as a member of the bar, Antero
Molander?
This is based on the idea that if someone maliciously puts something
like this to Internet, there are damages, and we must at some point
cash in on them. We are not going to just watch it.Can other critics at bigger publications criticize your services?
Of course, if they are professional food critics, and of course if
they are appropriate. We can guess what is behind this.So what is behind this?
No comment.Do you know what a blog is?
No I don’t really know. What are they?One of Internet’s biggest growing medium of communication, sort of
electronic diaries.
Well, anyone can do that sort of thing in their own paper notebooks.
(Thanks, Herkko!)