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

193 points by beardyw

by curt15

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

by kreyenborgi

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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.

by wolvoleo

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This is so sad to see. It makes me lose respect for the legal system when the people with the most expensive lawyers automatically win. Luckily I'm not in the US but even here meta gets away with a lot (especially because they have the Irish privacy regulator in their pocket)

by skeledrew

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

by helpfulmandrill

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by uxhacker

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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...

by UqWBcuFx6NV4r

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

by gpt5

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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.

by d--b

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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.

by dbdr

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[meta] I was surprised this fell off the front page. The post has "131 points, 3 hours ago, 39 comments" and sits at rank 55. Number 2 on front page has "41 points, 4 hours ago, 0 comments". I don't want to assume something nefarious without reason, but that seems counterintuitive. Are there other parameters that can explain this ranking?

by storgaard

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