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Didn't that lawsuit end up being entirely misconstrued [1, 2]? IANAL, so I can't verify the legitimacy of the sources there but it made sense to me. I'm interested if someone more aware of the situation and laws has insight.

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I'm not so sure that random comments on reddit are a good source of credible information. I suppose the same could be said about random comments on HN without credible sources.

The matter was widely reported in January 2017.

Still waiting for those credible sources!

Here's a CNBC article about his reconsideration:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/25/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg...

And here's his statement about having done so:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170130025034/http://thegardeni...

OK?

I gather that he dropped the lawsuits, after public outcry. But notwithstanding his change of heart, he did file them. And arguably, he only dropped them because of the bad PR.

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