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>It's this Libel and Defamation law that has often contributed to the allegations of censorship. Exactly the same in Austria. Often politicians and even shitty
by ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>It's this Libel and Defamation law that has often contributed to the allegations of censorship.
Exactly the same in Austria. Often politicians and even shitty businesses use the libel law to get undesirable negative information about them removed from public spaces
An MP was called a "corrupt traitor" on Facebook and Facebook was forced to remove that comment under the libel law.
Often businesses will force Google, Kununu and other websites where people can leave reviews, to remove the negative ones under the libel law, that even doctor's practices do it.
Basically, your not allowed to air the dirty laundry of the rich and powerful unless you have bulletproof hard evidence, wich you can never really get as the GDPR and other strong privacy laws make legal evidence gathering nearly impossible by individuals.
- jan_Inkepa 4y agoI've been legally threatened twice by a German restaurant on google for leaving a 3 star review on the basis that it damages their ability to do business. Pretty ridiculous... . Google required me to post proof I had been there, but that didn't stop the Restaurant threatening a second time...
- blacklion 4y agoMy wife's brother, who lives in Munich, say, that it is impossible to leave bad review for doctor or hospital, because here is court decision, that patient is not qualified (doesn't have education and training) to distinguish good medical service from bad one!
- lotsofpulp 4y ago>that patient is not qualified (doesn't have education and training) to distinguish good medical service from bad one! This statement seems true for the vast majority of patients (although not the part where government prevents people from sharing their thoughts).
- lostlogin 4y agoI work in healthcare. If you want to cause a massive, expensive and all consuming drama, physically hurt someone and then tell them that they are wrong and you didn’t. It’s surprisingly how often this is done.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI was referring more to a patient not being able to discern whether or not a certain diagnosis or treatment plan is the best option, just as they would not be able to with a car mechanic.
- lostlogin 4y agoOh for sure, sorry. I was more meaning that from the patient’s perspective, it’s hard to tell the difference. It helps that I live in NZ where you can’t sue very easily for injury, and most medical errors are covered by a national insurance scheme which applies to everyone.
- blacklion 4y agoPatient could have second opinion, for example. When one doctor says "it is some muscular spasm, take painkiller and wait" and other one remove stones from my ureter (true story), I know that first one didn't give me good medical service, for sure.
- blacklion 4y agoOr if doctor starts to speak about homeopathy, osteopathy, thin energies, some concepts from ayurveda (one doctor in expensive clinic with good reputation to my ginger wife: "You are red-haired, so you warm woman, you need to shift your diet that and this"), you don't need to be MD to understand, that it is bullshit, and this doctor is not very good one.
- _0ffh 4y agoSomeone do that to me, I remove it and create a 2 star review. The only way to discourage such behaviour is negative consequences.