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"There are 3 main reasons that forced us to file a complaint – We are not suing him for just a single bad review: 1. He left fabricated stories on his reviews

by hu3 6y ago

"There are 3 main reasons that forced us to file a complaint – We are not suing him for just a single bad review: 1. He left fabricated stories on his reviews on TripAdvisor and Google that included xenophobic connotations, accusations of slavery and even comments that could mislead readers to associate our property with the Coronavirus. 2. He had been posting reviews roughly 1-2 weeks apart with obvious defamatory intentions. We chose to file a complaint to serve as a deterrent, as we understood he may continue to write negative reviews week after week for the foreseeable future. 3. Despite our multiple efforts to contact him to resolve this in an amicable way for well over a month, he chose to ignore us completely. He only replied to our emails, messages on review sites, etc. once he had been notified of our complaint by the authorities." Ouch.

visarga 6y ago
Yet the worldwide spread of this news story has done a million times more damage than a few reviews could have. Smart, now people are talking about avoiding Thailand all together. If you want to be a tourist destination and at the same time threaten the freedom of your guests with such draconian laws, then you got a problem. I read years ago that an American woman in Pakistan was arrested for walking on the street wearing short pants (wasn't modest enough). Tourists should know these things to be able to adapt or avoid.
- stephenr 6y ago
  > now people are talking about avoiding Thailand all together Or, they're talking about refusing uppity Americans.
vsl 6y ago
You can see what a load of BS is right from the one review screenshotted in the article. Point 1 boils down to: - “manager is Czech and full of himself” - xenophobic my ass (preemptively: I’m Czech and no way in hell would I see such statement as having “xenophobic connotations” - He wrote “avoid like the coronavirus” - that can’t mislead anyone with non-zero reading comprehension to “associate the property” They’re just bullies.

by hu3 6y ago

visarga 6y ago

Yet the worldwide spread of this news story has done a million times more damage than a few reviews could have. Smart, now people are talking about avoiding Thailand all together. If you want to be a tourist destination and at the same time threaten the freedom of your guests with such draconian laws, then you got a problem. I read years ago that an American woman in Pakistan was arrested for walking on the street wearing short pants (wasn't modest enough). Tourists should know these things to be able to adapt or avoid.

stephenr 6y ago
> now people are talking about avoiding Thailand all together Or, they're talking about refusing uppity Americans.

vsl 6y ago

You can see what a load of BS is right from the one review screenshotted in the article. Point 1 boils down to: - “manager is Czech and full of himself” - xenophobic my ass (preemptively: I’m Czech and no way in hell would I see such statement as having “xenophobic connotations” - He wrote “avoid like the coronavirus” - that can’t mislead anyone with non-zero reading comprehension to “associate the property” They’re just bullies.