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Note 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 (ev
by gpt5 5mo ago
Note 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!)
- chinathrow 5mo agoI understand that, but the book is out already.
- pjc50 5mo agoWe could do with establishing whether that's covered by the injunction; the article also says that _Hay_ stopped selling it for the same reason. People are probably too young to remember the "Spycatcher" fiasco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycatcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycatcher
- cowboylowrez 5mo agohopefully folks won't share copies of this book online or anything! that would suck!
- chinathrow 5mo agoI still can order this book where I live though.
- yencabulator 5mo ago> One who understands the power of nondisclosure agreements. Why would a judge pre-decide that any possible word or nod from the author would break an agreement, and consider that valid enough to remove someone's freedom of speech?
- niemandhier 5mo agoCould she give a multi day filibuster live on YouTube and only be fined once?
- gaiagraphia 5mo agoI'm guessing they'd argue that every "aspect" discussed would be worthy of a 50k 'fine'.
- soco 5mo agoAlas, a GoFundMe campaign would never gain enough traction to make fun of this fine.
- iso1631 5mo agoStreisand effect is more useful. Not that any of this matters, these people are too wealthy (and thus powerful) to bring to justice.