Can you get arrested or sued for giving restaurants a bad review online?

Give a business a bad review on Yelp. Is it wrong? Usually I'm nice but this place did give pretty bad service.Can you get arrested or sued for giving restaurants a bad review online?
Joe.



I think this would be applicable to cases where an individual resorts to giving a constantly bad review to a certain establishment on purpose.



On the other hand if you have genuinely experienced a bad service at a certain establishment, then there is nothing stopping you posting a review which gives all the details regardless of whether it is negative or not. Mind you it is always important to ensure you can back up your claims when you are giving a rather negative review. Apart from that I see no problem why you shouldn't if your complaint is truly genuine.
Of course not, although technically you can get sued for almost anything. They will have no basis because you're just giving your opinion. Would all those food critics who give bad reviews to restaurants get arrested too? We still have our freedom of speech.



If you however, flat out lie like that Wendy's-finger-in-the-soup situation, then yes you will get sued or arrested. If you constantly create pseudonyms to give negative online reviews on a particular restaurant, then you may be in trouble too as that is harming the future business of the restaurant.Can you get arrested or sued for giving restaurants a bad review online?
You CAN get sued for about anything.

But that would definitely not qualify as Slander, so they would have almost zero chance of winning.



You are well within your rights to give an honest opinion.







What wouldn't be legal however is to say McDonalds gave you a burger with a mouse in it, when that didn't actually happen.
Arrested no because you have committed no crime. I don't think you would be sued either, but it's not technically impossible either. I don't think a reputable company would want that kind of publicity anyway. Can't you just see that on all the major networks!Can you get arrested or sued for giving restaurants a bad review online?
nope, since it's simply your opinion. and besides that, they don't have any hard evidence of you tampering with their restaurant in any form, so you're clear.
they would create far more bad publicity by suing you than by ignoring you, of course if the chef with all his big knives took it personally..................
as long as you are expressing you opinion they can not win a lawsuit against you.
No and no - if it was your opinion or your experience you cant be sued or arrested
no. freedom of speech.
ummm, no, dude