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Comment Re: Spreading misinformation (Score 1) 114

So you are ignoring the part where THE BIDEN ADMIN ordered these folks offline? (YouTube already restored accounts that YouTube on its own took down gor violating YouTube rules, the story here is that these are the accounts that DIDN'T violate YouTube policies, the BIDEN ADMIN ordered them shutdown because the BIDEN ADMIN objected to their content.

Comment Re: Spreading misinformation (Score 1) 114

Alphabet blamed the Biden administration for limiting political speech on the platform. "Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies," the letter read.

I must have missed the impassioned pleas from 400 Hollywood A-Listers condemning the government for shutting down YouTubers, silencing criticsof the government...

Anyone got a link?

Im positive everyone on the left wailing about supposed government suppression of Jimmy Kimmel was just as outraged when these content creators were silenced BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION...

Comment Re: shocked I am! (Score 1) 55

Using autopen is not controversial in and of itself, the issue is when you have political staffers decide what to have signed by autopen without even consulting the elected President.

Obama used autopen, Trump '45 used autopen, but as needed and at the direction of POTUS - Biden's staff used autopen because they didn't want to wake up Sleepy Joe to pardon a campaign donors convicted child/friend.

Comment Re: shocked I am! (Score 1) 55

Customs and Border Protection collected DNA from nearly 2,000 US citizens between 2020 and 2024 and sent the samples to the FBI's CODIS crime database

Are you really defending unelected admin staffers signing pardons never seen or discussed with POTUS via autopen?

Really?

You think it's OK because the people elected a feeble, barely cogent septuagenarian that struggled with exiting stairs, walking up stairs, and bicycles, and used a teleprompter that had a screen so large it took two people to move it?

Comment Re: shocked I am! (Score 1) 55

Mass Collection? Are you serious?

Customs and Border Protection collected DNA from nearly 2,000 US citizens between 2020 and 2024 and sent the samples to the FBI's CODIS crime database

That's about one a day (2020-> 2024, 5 x 365 =1,825)... ideal? Hardly, but Mass Collection? Uh, no.

Comment She's not a whistleblower, she's an author (Score 2) 31

whistleblowers reveal criminal/corrupt activities to gov't officials for possible prosecution.

She wrote a book ostensibly about her time at Meta, she also signed a contract agreeing to not disparage her former employer.

Presumably the agreement doesn't prevent her from talking to the gov't as a whistleblower/witness, but it likely clearly prevents her from publishing a disparaging book about Meta, promoting her disparaging book, or talking to the press disparagingly about Meta.

Her lawyer is fighting for her right to publish/promote/sell her disparaging book despite the contract she (presumably) signed freely. (If she was coerced/forced, there are likely laws about that, but that's not what the lawyer is arguing.)

Comment Re: Power imbalance (Score 1, Troll) 31

This isn't a liable case, it's a contractual agreement she signed. This falls under contract law.

Also, be ware, don't assume UK laws are like US laws on matters like this - Police in UK are putting people in JAIL for tweets and other social media posts that the gov't thinks are "hate speech".

Comment Re: Power imbalance (Score 1) 31

Meta has emphasised that Wynn-Williams entered into the non-disparagement agreement voluntarily as part of her departure.

I'd *really* like to know the details around this separation agreement - was it just a piece of paper she signed as she headed out the door? Was a severance package tied to it? Contingent on it being signed?

If she signed the agreement to get a payout, she really has nothing to complain about. Yeah, I get 'corporations are horrible' and 'speaking truth to power', but honestly, if you cashed the check, you need to abide by the terms.

Can she pay back the money (assuming there was money) to be free of her agreement?

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