Legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
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She should do a tour of the US with someone asking her questions and she just not responding.
It would be a big problem if you ever need to go there. Which at least for me is of course a lot less likely in this day and age. If my job asks me to go I'll refuse. Even though I don't have any legal issues there, I just don't feel safe anymore especially being an outspoken LGBT advocate. And I understand giving them social media accounts will be mandatory soon which is a dealbreaker for me also, again nothing to hide but I just don't want to.
Or is that only to protect nazis and the klu klux klan?
"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...
It was a really good book by the way, I recommend it
One thing that VRChat did lack and horizons had is an in-app builder though. On VRChat you have to use unity which is a big barrier.
But other similar apps do have built in builders too like viverse and spatial have that too and they haven't cost billions either.
I don't know what they've done with all that cash but it feels like they have very little to show for it. Some decent hardware sure but still.
I cannot understand that when there is SO much suffering in the world that can relatively easy be solved by throwing a few billion dollars in it that one can justify spending billions in things people do not want.
The man can be the best inhabitant earth has ever known by massively funding research for good clean water, correct waste disposal, clean energy and good food for all of us. Maybe even make a profit of it! But he decides to put his massive resources in virtual reality...
At least spend a fraction of your money to give every poor woman a Divya Washing Machine[1] so that they have more time to do other things, perhaps even improving your stupid Metaverse for you.
Edit: I stand corrected. See comment below.
"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."
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!)
People are probably too young to remember the "Spycatcher" fiasco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycatcher
Why would a judge pre-decide that any possible word or nod from the author would break an agreement, and consider that valid enough to remove someone's freedom of speech?
Not that any of this matters, these people are too wealthy (and thus powerful) to bring to justice.
If it's people flagging, is there a good reason to do that? Otherwise, I would still call it nefarious behavior by people abusing the flagging mechanism in order to bury this story.