A French woman blogs her bad experience at an Italian restaurant in an up-scale French tourist town on the Atlantic, and her review eventually ranks fourth in all Google searches for that restaurant. That was too high and hurt the establishment’s reputation, lawyers argued, so a French court has ordered her to change the post’s title (she retracted it entirely) and pay $2,000 in damages.

French lawyers say this won’t become a precedent at all. Sure.

I won’t name the restaurant, in case it adds to the blogger’s grief, but the CS Monitor says that while the bad review is offline (though archived by Internet gnomes), many comments are being posted about how this restaurant can’t take criticism.

Also in this report: “German politicians are considering a return to using manual typewriters for sensitive documents in the wake of the US surveillance scandal.” This is probably a smart move.