We can add one more reason why it’s not such a bad thing to be a blogger in the good ole’ U.S. of A: we won’t be jailed and fined if we criticize something we don’t like…such as the food at a shitty restaurant.

Not so in Taiwan where a High Court this week sentenced a popular lifestyle blogger named Liu to 30 days in detention, two years probation and NT$200,000 in fines (about $7,000 U.S.) for criticizing a Taichung noodle shop on her blog.

And what was the horrible offense that warranted such a harsh sentence? Well, Liu called the food “too salty.” She also said she saw cockroaches inside the establishment and called the owner a “bully” for allowing his customers to park haphazardly causing traffic jams.

The High Court didn’t find her claims of cockroaches to be slanderous because they were just a “narration of facts,” but what it had an issue with was the blogger’s “too salty” criticism which the court found to have “exceeded reasonable bounds” because Liu only had tried one dish on her single visit.

So let me get this straight…if she had kept going back to the restaurant after her initial bad experience and kept having more bad experiences, then it would’ve been OK to criticize the restaurant and call the food “too salty”? Because that’s exactly what I would do when I go to a place where the food is awful—choose to return to that same shitty establishment over and over again.

Taiwanese Food Nazi Yang, the restaurant’s owner, filed the charges against Liu, accusing her of defamation. The monetary fine was levied against her to make up for Yang’s “lost wages” due to the bad business that resulted from her review. Liu has since apologized to Yang.

I wonder if Yelp or its equivalent exists in Taiwan ‘cause I’m assuming after this ruling, anyone who posts a negative review of any place there is fucked. So if you’re dining in Taiwan and that stinky tofu just isn’t your thing? Keep it to yourself.