Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company

Re:Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticis... by JKCalhoun on Sunday September 21, 2025 @10:00AM (#45322822)

I don't think that matters in terms of whether it is even enforceable. I could sign a document allowing management to take my first born son but them doing so is not legal. "But he signed it!"

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Re:Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticis... by loeg on Sunday September 21, 2025 @11:15AM (#45323500)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unconscionability

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Re:Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticis... by twoodfin on Sunday September 21, 2025 @10:28AM (#45323042)

Sure. Was that what happened here, or was it an everyday contract to enforce confidentiality in return for some benefit?

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Re:Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticis... by cmiles74 on Sunday September 21, 2025 @11:18AM (#45323529)

If people are being forced to sign anti-disparagement agreements “everyday”, I think that is pretty concerning.

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Re:Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticis... by twoodfin on Sunday September 21, 2025 @12:28PM (#45324161)

She was forced to sign it?

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Re:Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticis... by JKCalhoun on Sunday September 21, 2025 @12:50PM (#45324430)

Hard to know. If she did not sign it was she waiving her severance package? Perhaps she signed it believing it was unenforceable.

I suppose when one side has lawyers, we all need them now?

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Re:Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticis... by luckylion on Sunday September 21, 2025 @03:17PM (#45325766)

You could also sign an NDA. And then you'd be bound by that NDA to not disclose the information it is protecting. Should penalties from that should also be non-enforceable because it would limit what you can say?

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