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Legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival

129 pointsby beardywtoday at 8:15 AM37 commentsview on HN

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curt15today at 9:13 AM

See her testimony last year before the senate judiciary committee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3DAnORfgB8

kreyenborgitoday at 9:54 AM

Go go Streisand effect. This gag order will be great for her book.

She should do a tour of the US with someone asking her questions and she just not responding.

skeledrewtoday at 9:26 AM

I find it wild that a "justice" system allows something like this to happen. It's absolute joke.

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uxhackertoday at 8:44 AM

As Mark Zuckerberg has said in 2017 :

"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...

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UqWBcuFx6NV4rtoday at 9:21 AM

You can always tell that Zuck continues to maintain and assert his ultimate control over Meta, because only a vindictive child acts like this.

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helpfulmandrilltoday at 9:04 AM

Might buy a second copy. Can always give it away.

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gpt5today at 8:56 AM

Note that she was following her lawyers advice. Not a gag order from Meta. This advice l is standard practice when you have an active litigation against you (everything you say can and will be used against you).

Edit: I stand corrected. See comment below.

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d--btoday at 9:50 AM

Sitting on stage in silence is going to cause a lot more people to talk about it. Congrats to whoever came up with the idea.

storgaardtoday at 9:29 AM

This is another great reason to read her (Sarah Wynn-Williams) book Careless People.