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Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698684

OK it took a while to get to the point, but Zuck claiming that Wynn-Williams sitting silently on stage during a panel constitutes "disparagement" is farcical if not straight-up evil

It looks weirdly petty that they are going after her. Everyone knows that Meta is a shitty place to work. There have already been countless articles. Their reputation as an employer is almost Amazon-tier. Is there much point in trying to silence one person?

No, there's really not. That's why it's self-evident to me that their goal is to send a message to any other employee thinking about following her lead

Real anti-trust enforcement could help with American's problems.

As well as laws that make forced arbitration contracts unenforceable.

I used to think so, too, but the Steam/Valve stuff from the past few years has opened my eyes to the usefulness of arbitration as a leveler (specifically, the parts of agreements that force big companies to pay all of the costs and fees).

But definitely outlaw small clause carve-outs.

Just read Careless People. It’s good and this triggers the Streisand effect.

This could be a prompt for cards against humanity… Zuckerberg’s Increasingly Bizarre _____

Doesn’t seem bizarre to me. Seems reasonable for a man in his position.

Reasonable but evil.

> Zuckerberg knows that threatening Wynn-Williams for standing in wooden silence on a stage makes him look like history's most guillotineable billionaire.

In my opinion, most iltra rivh get to where they are by being narcissictic sociopaths. But zuckerberg really takes the cake. Remember when he thought a makeover and singing listens would be enough to make him president? Mans actually deranged. Brilliant, but actually crazy

How is he brilliant?

In the same way as Pablo Escobar was "brilliant" I suppose. By being financially successful while destroying countless lives.

Escobar likely did less societal harm than Zuck.

I don't know if I would say he was brilliant, that seems a bit of an overshoot, but I will say the following on his behalf in order to not suggest he is just a lucky idiot.

Lots of people were in that space trying to guess what was going to be the way to go, he did, that can of course be that he guessed with luck. But if someone guesses big with luck maybe it is just as reasonable to say that they had at least some clever insights.

He has multiple times bought his way out of the things that would threaten him. That is of course the game, it doesn't make him brilliant but it does make him reasonably competent at that part of his business.

There are lots of people that are described as neurodivergent who do not understand social interaction, or are very bad at it, let us, for the sake of argument, say that Zuckerberg is one of these (it is possible that my face looks like I am sucking on a lemon as I type this), but most of these people do not bother to try to model various ways that the people do socially interact do it, and build successful businesses on top of a model that may perhaps be flawed but does have some predictive/manipulative power.

Watching him walk out with UFC fighter Alexander Volkanovski as if he were part of his corner, and seeing him continuously, but incorrectly, anticipate that the rest of the men he was with were about to hand him something, or otherwise interact with him in any way, was honestly a mouth wide open moment for me. Not that the other guys ignored him, but that he clearly expected them all to include him at this moment that months of their preparation have lead up to, contrasted with him buying his way in to. It was one of those moments that makes you feel better about your own social awkwardness in comparison.

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