Meta seeks to block further sales of ex-employee’s scathing memoir (www.nytimes.com)
from spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org on 13 Mar 2025 02:45
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Sarah Wynn-Williams last week released “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism,” a book that describes a series of incendiary allegations of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior by senior executives during her tenure at the company. Meta pursued arbitration, arguing that the book is prohibited under a nondisparagement contract she signed as a global affairs employee.

haha Streisand effect go brrrr

bookshop.org sells it in both hardcover and e-book

or from Bez-Mart, if you’re into that sort of thing

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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech on 13 Mar 2025 03:02 next collapse

Which immediately tells me I should buy it

goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 13 Mar 2025 03:23 next collapse

Fine, you take it off the shelves and I’ll just torrent it. Nobody should be able to stop me from doing that as long as I don’t seed it, right Meta?

Embargo@lemm.ee on 13 Mar 2025 04:00 next collapse

Can it be worse than genocide in Myanmar? Because meta fucking did that.

h54@programming.dev on 13 Mar 2025 04:16 next collapse

Probably not but these cowardly sociopaths are more mortified of exposure and embarrassment than anything else. Like cockroaches when the lights are tuned on.

HK65@sopuli.xyz on 13 Mar 2025 07:52 next collapse

Harder to diffuse the responsibility when it is about crimes directly committed by specific people than something the orphan-crushing machine did.

Same way social murder is rationalized away.

Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee on 13 Mar 2025 08:29 collapse

You got any more info on that? I’ve not heard of Meta’s involvement there but it sadly wouldn’t surprise me

PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat on 13 Mar 2025 04:06 next collapse

Meta pursued arbitration, arguing that the book is prohibited under a nondisparagement contract she signed as a global affairs employee.

I feel like in the current climate, a lot more people need to be adhering to the doctrine of go fuck yourself.

“But we had the ARBITER say you COULD NOT”

“Yeah good luck with that”

“We will SUE you and RUIN you”

“Hey I’m doing a gofundme then good luck with all your stuff, people definitely know about my book now.”

beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org on 13 Mar 2025 04:58 next collapse

Is it DRM-free on bookshop?

vk6flab@lemmy.radio on 13 Mar 2025 05:25 next collapse

Strictly for research purposes … right?

beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org on 13 Mar 2025 14:05 collapse

More like “I’m not paying for DRM books”. If they want my money, they can sell a non-DRM book. I buy those all the time.

Powderhorn@beehaw.org on 13 Mar 2025 16:37 collapse

But think of the CEOs! They need another fucking yacht.

Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org on 13 Mar 2025 09:04 collapse

If it’s Adobe it can be made DRM-free relatively easy. It’s the first thing I do with every purchase (and legal where I live). Try Calibre (free/libre) or Epubor (paid but more versatile and works better for me).

Amazon has just introduced a policy change that probably makes it much harder (or impossible) to de-DRM stuff bought there, so I’m going to do without the books exclusive to them for the time being.

fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk on 13 Mar 2025 08:23 next collapse

Also available on Kobo (Canadian Company) as an e-book. It does contain Adobe DRM though, so you would need to remove that with Calibre if you want to keep it on other devices.

jherazob@beehaw.org on 13 Mar 2025 10:41 next collapse

Heh, saw it already in some places 🏴‍☠️ so Streisand effect is in full force, good!

el_muerte@lemm.ee on 13 Mar 2025 16:27 next collapse

The book is a “mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives,” a Meta spokesman, Andy Stone, said in a statement.

Asshole implying misdeeds can only be reported on once, and they must be recent, otherwise they just don’t count? Fuck off…

InvertedParallax@lemm.ee on 13 Mar 2025 17:20 collapse

Freedom of speech for me, not for thee.

Then again, corporations are the real citizens.