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Sarah Wynn-Williams last week released “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism,” a book that describes a series of incendiary allegations of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior by senior executives during her tenure at the company. Meta pursued arbitration, arguing that the book is prohibited under a nondisparagement contract she signed as a global affairs employee.

haha Streisand effect go brrrr

bookshop.org sells it in both hardcover and e-book

or from Bez-Mart, if you’re into that sort of thing

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    29 days ago

    Fine, you take it off the shelves and I’ll just torrent it. Nobody should be able to stop me from doing that as long as I don’t seed it, right Meta?

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    29 days ago

    Can it be worse than genocide in Myanmar? Because meta fucking did that.

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    28 days ago

    Heh, saw it already in some places 🏴‍☠️ so Streisand effect is in full force, good!

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    The book is a “mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives,” a Meta spokesman, Andy Stone, said in a statement.

    Asshole implying misdeeds can only be reported on once, and they must be recent, otherwise they just don’t count? Fuck off…

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      28 days ago

      If it’s Adobe it can be made DRM-free relatively easy. It’s the first thing I do with every purchase (and legal where I live). Try Calibre (free/libre) or Epubor (paid but more versatile and works better for me).

      Amazon has just introduced a policy change that probably makes it much harder (or impossible) to de-DRM stuff bought there, so I’m going to do without the books exclusive to them for the time being.