The Boteco São Bento Incident – Or: Fuck Free Speech!
This pisses me off to no end, so i decided to blog it.
So there is this blog called Resenha Em 6 where the author posts random reviews of movies, CDs, DVDs, books, shows, bars, restaurants and TV shows, in six lines of text or less.
Recently, he reviewed the hipster bar Boteco São Bento (warning, ugly Flash site) in São Paulo. Let’s just say it was a rather devastating review.
Soon people who appeared to be running/owning that bar posted threatening comments, “asking” to remove the review (they later claimed it wasn’t them.. YEAH RIGHT). The rest is history, the blog post went viral big time (Twitter and such) and drew A LOT of comments (many of them confirming that the bar is shitty).
Next, the unthinkable happened. The bar owners got their lawyers to send the blogger a takedown notice, ordering him to remove the post and all comments, and he (very unfortunately) complied to prevent further legal action.
This is outrageous.
I’ll never set foot into the bars Boteco São Bento (and Dona Flor in Moema, same owner) again. Ever. Dona Flor is two blocks from my house, and i actually used to go there from time to time. No more. Fuckers.
Sue me, please. Looking forward.
October 1st, 2009 at 00:29
boa.
só não vejo nenhum problema de liberdade de expressão. “no papel, cabe tudo”, como costuma dizer um amigo advogado. os donos do bar têm o direito de fazer essa estupudez que só fez espalhar mais a notícia e a aumentar a raiva pelo bar.
o cidadão que fez a resenha devia ter comprado a briga, até porque não iriam demorar a aparecer advogados oportunistas pra pegar essa causa.
talvez seja melhor assim. continuemos a espalhar a notícia.
October 1st, 2009 at 06:27
If you’re so sure about your position, why don’t you quote full article here (from your disk cache or google cache or whatever) and see what happens.
October 1st, 2009 at 06:49
Unfortunately i don’t have any cached version of that article.
There is this though..
Article on FolhaOnline
Article on PortalImprensa
And the original article is quoted here
And then there also is this older, disturbing video
October 1st, 2009 at 11:08
“This video has been removed by the user.”
October 1st, 2009 at 11:21
p.s. it seems, though, from the link you posted, that take-down was caused by “impersonating” comments, not by bad review itself… it could be enough to delete comments, probably.