Who is the judge that made this order?
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Quite a way to express that her words against the company are really fucking true
Fuck NDA’s
Usually I would expect the truth to be a defense against defamation. Looks like binding arbitration is an end run around that.
I’m torn between wanting to read it, and saving the last vestiges of my remaining state-of-the-world-influenced mental health.
Unfortunately her book only appears to be available with DRM
If you ever want to know who rules you, look at who you aren't allowed to criticize.
This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire but it's an anti-Semitic dog whistle coined by neo-Nazi Kevin Alfred Strom.
Thanks for posting that, I was about to! Molly Conger did a great episode of Weird Little Guys about this exact subject called Do We Really Need to Talk About Kevin?
I knew those god damn disabled, 4th stage cancer suffering orphans were secretly in charge
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.
“Careless People” is what it’s called. In case anyone wanted to buy it.
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.
I bought a copy, and this bullshit. We should be making her a millionaire. This book needs to become a number 1 bestseller.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
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.
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.
You can still fix that guilt.
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.
Archived: https://archive.md/jfpBk
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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