"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."
What 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.
When I worked there a few years back, my eyes rolled hard without VR at $22B of CapEx being spent without clearly-established market demand. They should've spent $1B at least on marketing Workplace and that home assistant box, whatever it was called.
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).
"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."
One 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.
See her testimony last year before the senate judiciary committee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3DAnORfgB8
I find it wild that a "justice" system allows something like this to happen. It's absolute joke.
An American system, nevertheless. The same system which attempts to institute similar rules on other nations by various sources of influence.
Can't be american, that's all about the freedom of speech.
Or is that only to protect nazis and the klu klux klan?
It’s those left-wingers and their ‘cancel culture’ that are stopping these oppressed billionaires from speaking freely!
Shadow docket concierge justice for privileged people, normative justice for average people, and prerogative justice for enemies of the privileged.
As 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-promote...
What I can’t understand is how she was able to publish the book, but is not able speak publicly about what happened.
Presumably he meant on Facebook, not on Facebook..
Also: "Don't do evil" (Google, ca 2004)
Go 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.
You can always tell that Zuck continues to maintain and assert his ultimate control over Meta, because only a vindictive child acts like this.
What 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.
Like spend $100B on Metaverse and AI without a plan?
I still can't comprehend how they managed to blow that much money on what appears to be just a worse version of VR Chat.
When I worked there a few years back, my eyes rolled hard without VR at $22B of CapEx being spent without clearly-established market demand. They should've spent $1B at least on marketing Workplace and that home assistant box, whatever it was called.
At least he's winning in Catan.
More like Monopoly, Catan has too many rules limiting expansion
You need to read the book for the reference. Apparently mark likes to play catan and everyone else looses on purpose…
Might buy a second copy. Can always give it away.
Great book, too. Got me to finally delete my Instagram account :)
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.
There 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."
What kind of Judge approves such a gag order?
One 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!)
One 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?
Someone with aspirations for higher office.
Apparently 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...
Could she give a multi day filibuster live on YouTube and only be fined once?
I'm guessing they'd argue that every "aspect" discussed would be worthy of a 50k 'fine'.
Alas, a GoFundMe campaign would never gain enough traction to make fun of this fine.
Streisand effect is more useful.
Not that any of this matters, these people are too wealthy (and thus powerful) to bring to justice.
Sitting on stage in silence is going to cause a lot more people to talk about it. Congrats to whoever came up with the idea.
This is another great reason to read her (Sarah Wynn-Williams) book Careless People.