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The book is a “mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives,” a Meta spokesman, Andy Stone, said in a statement.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...
Freedom of speech for me, not for thee.
Then again, corporations are the real citizens.
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?
Meta pursued arbitration, arguing that the book is prohibited under a nondisparagement contract she signed as a global affairs employee.
I feel like in the current climate, a lot more people need to be adhering to the doctrine of go fuck yourself.
“But we had the ARBITER say you COULD NOT”
“Yeah good luck with that”
“We will SUE you and RUIN you”
“Hey I’m doing a gofundme then good luck with all your stuff, people definitely know about my book now.”
Which immediately tells me I should buy it
Can it be worse than genocide in Myanmar? Because meta fucking did that.
Probably not but these cowardly sociopaths are more mortified of exposure and embarrassment than anything else. Like cockroaches when the lights are tuned on.
You got any more info on that? I've not heard of Meta's involvement there but it sadly wouldn't surprise me
Harder to diffuse the responsibility when it is about crimes directly committed by specific people than something the orphan-crushing machine did.
Same way social murder is rationalized away.
Also available on Kobo (Canadian Company) as an e-book. It does contain Adobe DRM though, so you would need to remove that with Calibre if you want to keep it on other devices.
Heh, saw it already in some places 🏴☠️ so Streisand effect is in full force, good!
Is it DRM-free on bookshop?
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.
Strictly for research purposes .. right?
More like "I'm not paying for DRM books". If they want my money, they can sell a non-DRM book. I buy those all the time.
But think of the CEOs! They need another fucking yacht.