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U.S. man faces prison in Thailand for blasting resort with bad reviews
review a hotel that tried to send you to prison?An American man who criticized a Thai resort in a series of bitter online reviews could soon wind up behind bars, after the resort sued him under Thailand‘s harsh defamation laws.Wesley Barnes, an American ex-pat living in Thailand, is accused of damaging the reputation of Sea View Koh Chang resort with his reviews, which compared the hotel to “modern slavery” and the coronavirus.“The Sea View Resort owner filed a complaint that the defendant had posted unfair reviews on his hotel on the TripAdvisor website,” Col. Thanapon Taemsara of Koh Chang police told AFP.Immigration police briefly arrested Barnes earlier this month and later released him on bail.