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Meta seeks to block further sales of ex-employee’s scathing memoir

www.nytimes.com Meta Tries to Stop Sarah Wynn-Williams From Further Selling Scathing Memoir

An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.

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The book is a “mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives,” a Meta spokesman, Andy Stone, said in a statement.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

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?

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.”

Freedom of speech for me, not for thee.
Then again, corporations are the real citizens.

Which immediately tells me I should buy it

Can it be worse than genocide in Myanmar? Because meta fucking did that.
- Probably not but these cowardly sociopaths are more mortified of exposure and embarrassment than anything else. Like cockroaches when the lights are tuned on.
- You got any more info on that? I've not heard of Meta's involvement there but it sadly wouldn't surprise me
  
  Myanmar: Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations
- 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.

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.

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

Is it DRM-free on bookshop?
- 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.
- Strictly for research purposes .. right?
  
  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.

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