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Legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
- uxhacker 5mo agoAs Mark Zuckerberg has said in 2017 : "I'm here today because I believe that we must continue to stand for free expression," he said. "You should be able to say things that other people don't like, but you shouldn't be able to say things that put people in danger." https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/facebook-ceo-promotes-free-speech-but-takes-no-questions-from-reporters https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/facebook-ceo-promote...
- Chris2048 5mo agoPresumably he meant on Facebook, not on Facebook..
- soco 5mo agoAlso: "Don't do evil" (Google, ca 2004)
- uxhacker 5mo agoWhat I can’t understand is how she was able to publish the book, but is not able speak publicly about what happened.
- wolvoleo 5mo agoI think they didn't have enough time to prevent the publishing of the book. It was a really good book by the way, I recommend it
- gpt5 5mo agoNote that she was following her lawyers advice. Not a gag order from Meta. This advice l is standard practice when you have an active litigation against you (everything you say can and will be used against you). Edit: I stand corrected. See comment below.
- pjc50 5mo agoThere is apparently a court order involved: "Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, secured an emergency legal order on the eve of publication preventing her from publicly discussing aspects of the book, and she faces fines of $50,000 (£37,000) each time she breaches the order."
- chinathrow 5mo agoWhat kind of Judge approves such a gag order?
- codeduck 5mo agoSomeone with aspirations for higher office.
- jjgreen 5mo agoApparently Nicholas Gowan of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (the gag order, not the original ruling) https://securereach.net/digital-world/meta-strives-to-stifle-ex-employee-memoir/ https://securereach.net/digital-world/meta-strives-to-stifle...
- lionkor 5mo agoOne that realizes that this cannot backfire in any way. If dad asks to throw a rock at the neighbor, whats the worst that could happen?
- pjc50 5mo agoOne who understands the power of nondisclosure agreements. You might find it surprising that an executive signed a long-lasting non-disparagement agreement, but obviously they wouldn't have got the job otherwise. These are a very real problem. Especially the use of NDAs to cover up gross misconduct. (a particularly egregious example: Neil Gaiman!)
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- helpfulmandrill 5mo agoMight buy a second copy. Can always give it away.
- menno-sh 5mo agoGreat book, too. Got me to finally delete my Instagram account :)
- helpfulmandrill 5mo agoMe too, actually. Still need to get my family off Whatsapp though...
- curt15 5mo agoSee her testimony last year before the senate judiciary committee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3DAnORfgB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3DAnORfgB8
- UqWBcuFx6NV4r 5mo agoYou can always tell that Zuck continues to maintain and assert his ultimate control over Meta, because only a vindictive child acts like this.
- Garlef 5mo agoAt least he's winning in Catan.
- b3lvedere 5mo agoWhat kind of a very sad human being must one be when you have almost all the money in the world and continue to do very stupid things with it. In my experience the people who scream and threaten the loudest kinda acknowledge the problems.
- burnt-resistor 5mo agoLike spend $100B on Metaverse and AI without a plan?
- pesus 5mo agoI still can't comprehend how they managed to blow that much money on what appears to be just a worse version of VR Chat.
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- skeledrew 5mo agoI find it wild that a "justice" system allows something like this to happen. It's absolute joke.
- throw1234567891 5mo agoAn American system, nevertheless. The same system which attempts to institute similar rules on other nations by various sources of influence.
- iso1631 5mo agoCan't be american, that's all about the freedom of speech. Or is that only to protect nazis and the klu klux klan?
- Beretta_Vexee 5mo agoIt’s those left-wingers and their ‘cancel culture’ that are stopping these oppressed billionaires from speaking freely!
- Suzuran 5mo agoFreedom of speech exists to protect politically useful tools. That means the nazis and the Klan so long as they remain such. When they are no longer useful, the protection will pass to another useful tool.
- burnt-resistor 5mo agoShadow docket concierge justice for privileged people, normative justice for average people, and prerogative justice for enemies of the privileged.
- storgaard 5mo agoThis is another great reason to read her (Sarah Wynn-Williams) book Careless People.
- d--b 5mo agoSitting on stage in silence is going to cause a lot more people to talk about it. Congrats to whoever came up with the idea.
- kreyenborgi 5mo agoGo go Streisand effect. This gag order will be great for her book. She should do a tour of the US with someone asking her questions and she just not responding.
- wolvoleo 5mo agoThis is so sad to see. It makes me lose respect for the legal system when the people with the most expensive lawyers automatically win. Luckily I'm not in the US but even here meta gets away with a lot (especially because they have the Irish privacy regulator in their pocket)
- cjrp 5mo agoI mean, the Hay Festival is in Wales. You don't have to be in America to be affected.
- wolvoleo 5mo agoNo but she lives in America (she's from New Zealand but I think her partner and kids are American). She'll go back there and could get arrested or her assets confiscated. It would be a big problem if you ever need to go there. Which at least for me is of course a lot less likely in this day and age. If my job asks me to go I'll refuse. Even though I don't have any legal issues there, I just don't feel safe anymore especially being an outspoken LGBT advocate. And I understand giving them social media accounts will be mandatory soon which is a dealbreaker for me also, again nothing to hide but I just don't want to.
- therealdrag0 5mo agoShe signed an NDA and was probably well compensated for it. Shouldn’t the legal system uphold contracts?
- devin 5mo agoYes, it should. That doesn't mean that it isn't "sad to see" a lack of transparency in our society surrounding the misdeeds of mega corporations with their hands all over the levers of power.
- dbdr 5mo ago[meta] I was surprised this fell off the front page. The post has "131 points, 3 hours ago, 39 comments" and sits at rank 55. Number 2 on front page has "41 points, 4 hours ago, 0 comments". I don't want to assume something nefarious without reason, but that seems counterintuitive. Are there other parameters that can explain this ranking?
- freedomben 5mo agoThis has happened to a lot of stuff in the last couple months I've noticed. For me it's been mostly on bad news for Apple. I suspect it's something changed in the algorithm or people flagging rather than nefarious, but that's just my guess
- dbdr 5mo agoIf it's the algorithm, I'd be curious what other parameter it could be. If it's people flagging, is there a good reason to do that? Otherwise, I would still call it nefarious behavior by people abusing the flagging mechanism in order to bury this story.
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