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Was the person under NDA? Forbidden from filming beforehand?

The most of you seem to be leaping to the defense of the CEO for something that could've been a personal action based on a perceived slight instead of a corporate policy.

Out of the 1,000 or so there, wonder how many others started to record as soon as that went down. To also start recording would've been my immediate reaction.

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I don't know anything about AOL specifically, but I've worked for a handful of BigCo's. All have required signing some sort of agreement at the start of employment which explicitly forbids leaking confidential information. So it's very likely that this person was under an NDA. What may be surprising to people who haven't worked at a BigCo is that due to legal implications, often times companies actually have guidelines about what should be discussed in recorded formats versus in person/phone.

True that, from my POV I received requests on an event by event basis. Many of these people probably had to sign as part of employment.

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