Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago

Who is the judge that made this order?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Quite a way to express that her words against the company are really fucking true

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Fuck NDA’s

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    [–] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Usually I would expect the truth to be a defense against defamation. Looks like binding arbitration is an end run around that.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I’m not a lawyer, but I thought this kind of NDA was declared illegal. Like for sure you can’t share legally protected data (copyright, trade secret, and the like) but talking disparagingly seems like a pretty obvious first amendment violation.

    And I know that protects you from the government, but who’s enforcing the stipulations of such an NDA?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Nda's do not traditionally cover illegal activities either. Like if you were illegally trafficking puppies and you broke the NDA to expose that, that NDA was illegal to begin with and not enforceable. The courts are just so corrupt now they are just going along pretending to not be sold out plutocratic tools.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    I’m torn between wanting to read it, and saving the last vestiges of my remaining state-of-the-world-influenced mental health.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Unfortunately her book only appears to be available with DRM

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Hopefully this gets more press so the streisand effect can kick in.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    If you ever want to know who rules you, look at who you aren't allowed to criticize.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire but it's an anti-Semitic dog whistle coined by neo-Nazi Kevin Alfred Strom.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I knew those god damn disabled, 4th stage cancer suffering orphans were secretly in charge

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Regardless of the original source of the quote, there is a marked difference between criticism and disparagement. Making light of or downplaying someone's situation isn't the same as saying, "What you are doing is wrong".

    There is also a foundational difference between social consequences and governmental ones.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    “Careless People” is what it’s called. In case anyone wanted to buy it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    It's a good book and while everyone should take her claims with a grain of salt they fit pretty cleanly into the open behavior of the company.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I bought a copy, and this bullshit. We should be making her a millionaire. This book needs to become a number 1 bestseller.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    You can also purchase it at bookshop.org. I believe the eBook is still DRM'ed but buying the physical book can at least support a local (to you) book store.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Her big mistake is paying the fine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Isn't she just talking truthfully? Is the truth disparaging, if it is, isn't it of their own making, how is she to discern, I doubt they have a bar they wouldn't go below, even they wouldn't be able to point to the line where something is truthful but disparaging, if that's a possible description, because doesn't that then just become a retelling of the facts? Anyone would be hard pressed to find something above board, or even slightly ok about fb. Not even one, non disparaging description or thing, exisits relating to fb. I haven't read the book, I'm just going by what Zuck has publicly said and done, too.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    In legal terms, disparagement means any negative remarks regardless of truthfulness. It is usually used in cases where the statements are truthful or opinions.

    Defamation or libel is used when it is not. Obviously, you can usually disparage anyone you want if it is the truth or opinion. However, you may sign a contract, usually as part of employment, that forbids you from disparaging someone, usually your employer. That is likely what happened here. If you signed such a contract, your statements being true does not help you.

    Also note that no contract can stop you from reporting a crime to the authorities, in case you ever need to know that.

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    [–] 55 points 1 year ago

    [Meta] has said she was fired for “poor performance and toxic behaviour”

    I read this as:

    • 'toxic behavior' = she complained to HR about there being a hostile environment, which hurt the corporation's feelings.
    • 'poor performance' = she didn't meet the impossible performance goals they gave her in retaliation for her complaining about the abuse she was suffering.

    Fuck Meta and fuck Zuckerberg. The sooner they both disappear into irrelevance the better.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How incredibly frustrating it must be to lose everything you own because you still have something like a conscience and inform the public about the sinister dealings of a corporation, but users still act as if nothing happened—and surely for the hundredth time.

    Fuck all those conformist assholes who are too comfortable or too vain to leave this platform—they know full well who they're supporting with their goddamn selfies, mindless reels, and all that stupid shit.

    All the corruption and the monopolies are only possible because consumers are so incredibly ignorant, so dull-witted and lazy.

    I'm slowly but surely losing all faith in humanity.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It's actually a really, really good book, I listened to the audiobook and was very impressed with it.

    I feel kind of bad for pirating it now that she's being sued to bankruptcy.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    You can still fix that guilt.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I still don't want to pay the publisher by buying a copy so I'll see if there's a way to buy direct from the author or just send equivalent cash directly for the copy I downloaded.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Zuckerberg is The Matrix's Cypher.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    God I love Maoism! Heil Zuck!

    /s

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I'm not sure why she's being banned from criticizing the company? Like she signed a "non NDA" that included a clause about disparagement of the company, I get that, but I don't really understand how that's not a violation of her rights and therefore an invalidation of the contract.

    And on further reading it's claimed that she hasn't been forced to pay any damages for breach of that contract so how is she on the verge of bankruptcy? Is it that she can't promote her book?

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