9 comments

  • curt15 1 hour ago
    See her testimony last year before the senate judiciary committee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3DAnORfgB8
  • skeledrew 1 hour ago
    I find it wild that a "justice" system allows something like this to happen. It's absolute joke.
    • throw1234567891 1 hour ago
      An American system, nevertheless. The same system which attempts to institute similar rules on other nations by various sources of influence.
      • iso1631 58 minutes ago
        Can'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 43 minutes ago
          It’s those left-wingers and their ‘cancel culture’ that are stopping these oppressed billionaires from speaking freely!
    • burnt-resistor 1 hour ago
      Shadow docket concierge justice for privileged people, normative justice for average people, and prerogative justice for enemies of the privileged.
  • uxhacker 1 hour ago
    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...

    • uxhacker 43 minutes ago
      What I can’t understand is how she was able to publish the book, but is not able speak publicly about what happened.
    • Chris2048 1 hour ago
      Presumably he meant on Facebook, not on Facebook..
    • soco 1 hour ago
      Also: "Don't do evil" (Google, ca 2004)
  • kreyenborgi 48 minutes ago
    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.

  • UqWBcuFx6NV4r 1 hour ago
    You can always tell that Zuck continues to maintain and assert his ultimate control over Meta, because only a vindictive child acts like this.
    • b3lvedere 1 hour ago
      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.
      • burnt-resistor 1 hour ago
        Like spend $100B on Metaverse and AI without a plan?
        • pesus 49 minutes ago
          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.
          • burnt-resistor 22 minutes ago
            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.
    • Garlef 1 hour ago
      At least he's winning in Catan.
      • lionkor 1 hour ago
        More like Monopoly, Catan has too many rules limiting expansion
        • msh 38 minutes ago
          You need to read the book for the reference. Apparently mark likes to play catan and everyone else looses on purpose…
  • helpfulmandrill 1 hour ago
    Might buy a second copy. Can always give it away.
    • menno-sh 59 minutes ago
      Great book, too. Got me to finally delete my Instagram account :)
  • gpt5 1 hour 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 1 hour ago
      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."

      • chinathrow 1 hour ago
        What kind of Judge approves such a gag order?
        • pjc50 59 minutes ago
          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!)

        • lionkor 1 hour ago
          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?
        • codeduck 1 hour ago
          Someone with aspirations for higher office.
      • niemandhier 1 hour ago
        Could she give a multi day filibuster live on YouTube and only be fined once?
        • gaiagraphia 1 hour ago
          I'm guessing they'd argue that every "aspect" discussed would be worthy of a 50k 'fine'.
      • soco 1 hour ago
        Alas, a GoFundMe campaign would never gain enough traction to make fun of this fine.
        • iso1631 56 minutes ago
          Streisand effect is more useful.

          Not that any of this matters, these people are too wealthy (and thus powerful) to bring to justice.

  • d--b 52 minutes ago
    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.
  • storgaard 1 hour ago
    This is another great reason to read her (Sarah Wynn-Williams) book Careless People.