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> The woman who gave the presentation services her company's contract with a tech company, that, let's just say, has a big share of the search engine market. I
by omginternets 9y ago
> The woman who gave the presentation services her company's contract with a tech company, that, let's just say, has a big share of the search engine market.
If you're being oblique to avoid libel, it's worth noting that libel law doesn't care about whether nor not you name an entity. It cares about whether or not you've identified an entity.
Google has been identified.
- chrisper 9y agoFor all we know it could be Bing!
- romanovcode 9y agoYandex
- Bombthecat 9y agoThe Chinese version of Google. Forgot there name though. They are huge :)
- romanovcode 9y agoBaidu
- omginternets 9y agoGenerally, a handfull of possibilities counts as identification (at least, from a jurisprudence point of view)
- bsder 9y agoAnd if there were multiple people in that audience who concur about that quote, said entity is on the hook for a class action for millions of dollars. Somehow, I don't think this one is going to get pursued ...
- omginternets 9y agoNeither do I, which is why I find the whole exercise of not naming the company a bit odd.
- mankypro 9y agoThere are multiple class-action suits going on in Silicon Valley for age discrimination as we speak - I know first hand the Oracle has more than one in place, and given that the O is full of gray hairs already, I can only imagine that the other big names are getting hit too...
- magnetic 9y agoRemember that it's only libel if it's not true. It's possible that the report is true, but that the author doesn't want the consequences of unambiguous identification.