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        While I personally don’t, the difference between this and that is that most people here, together as a community, have decided, again together, that they don’t want to federate with Meta apps because of a long history of privacy and other abuses.

        That’s not the same thing as another billionaire pissed off because they are doing exactly what capitalism is “supposed to do”

        Do better or die is the whole philosophy no?

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            Oh boy, everyone should tell those Indian slaves in Dubai. They can’t hold you prisoner guys, it’s not valid if it’s not voluntary, so you can just go home. The capitalists say it’s okay…wait, what? Oh! it was the capitalists who put them there.

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                  An innocent person who commits a crime is no longer an innocent person.

                  A vegetarian who starts eating meat is no longer a vegetarian.

                  A capitalist who enslaves someone is no longer a capitalist.

                  I’m so sorry you have trouble with this basic definition, but capitalism is a free market system. Slaves are not free, and that economic relationship is not a free market relationship.

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                  From wikipedia:

                  Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.[1][2][3][4] Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, voluntary exchange, and wage labor.

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          You don’t see the conflict?

          Here it’s a case of hypocrisy, as it’s a conflict between berating someone else for some behavior, and engaging in it ourselves.

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            You’re making a false equivalence. Musk is scared about losing more of his money. People here seemingly don’t like Meta and don’t want it to infest lemmy. Those aren’t even close to being the same.

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              Or, Musk’s actions could be in line with protecting free speech. I mean, that’s the fear we have of Meta here: that it will destroy this space and silence voices.

              So if (a) Musk claims he’s protecting free speech, and then (b) takes actions consistent with that view, then there’s no opening to make an argument of the form “Must claims X but does Y”, when Y could be interpreted as a manifestation of goal X.

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                  Well what I said was:

                  • Musk claimed to be working to protect free speech
                  • Musk’s actions are consistent with that goal
                  • If fighting Meta isn’t consistent with that goal, then why are we fighting Meta?
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                I thought the law suit was centered around the fact that Twitter shit canned a bunch of programmers, and meta picked them up to make threads. So elon is claiming intellectual property theft.

                At no point did they mention that they were trying to save free speech. That wouldn’t make sense.

                I would hope elon loses this suit. You can’t force an employee you fired into a non disclosure agreement and then just not pay them wile locking them out of their field of work for 10 years.

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                  Yeah I don’t think he has a case either. I’m talking about the perceived motivations when his actions are consistent with his stated motivations (for running twitter, the ones mentioned in the comment thread I responded to), as evidenced by our own shared pairing of stated motivations and actions.

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    Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of Twitter employees

    LOL, you mean all those employees you unceremoniously fired?

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        IANAL, but from what I understand, you can put anything you want in a contract, but it doesn’t mean it’s enforceable.

        So the reason why companies put in non-compete clauses is mostly because people believe it, not because it’s really enforceable.

        Now if former twitter employees were still getting severance from Twitter while working at Meta, that could be an issue. But generally speaking, if you’re not getting money (consideration) non-compete clauses don’t matter much.

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          In most regions, you’re right: you can put a noncompete in a contract, but enforcing it is another matter.

          But noncompete clauses are explicitly illegal in California, where Twitter is based.

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          Most severance is paid in a lump sum.

          And if they laid you off or fired you, there’s no way they can enforce a no compete clause.

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        Noncompetes are basically unenforceable in California, you can make people sign them but they’re about as useful as if they were made out of toilet paper

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        I think that it is also different if you get fired. Don’t know in detail, but I assume that if they fire you without a valid cause they don’t have any grounds to complain that you did a sensitive and unique work.

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    Fuckerberg should just send that Muskrat a poop emoji.

    We should just start inciting for them to have a no-holds-bar, hell-in-a-cell, ladder, hardcore cage fight to the death. Then, when its over, we just don’t open the cage.

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      It’s ok, it’ll take Mark a few hours to unhinge his jaw and swallow Elon’s corpse whole. Then he’s gunna find a nice warm rock to lay on and digest.

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      I think we should start putting our money where our mouths are and start eating these people and their businesses

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        They can stay in their habitats; no need to bring in wildlife.

        If they’ve grown up in captivity, we can just do an intermission where someone throws a cardboard box in their enclosures and livestream it. It’ll be a hit!

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    Lmfao. Well, thanks for the free PR, I’m sure, because some poor secretary in his office knows there isn’t jack shit they can sue over.

    Not that I’m ever going to pretend to like Meta, but having competition is supposed to be the definition of his precious free market. There’s even rules and everything about monopolies. Can’t take issue with that unless he’s ready to declare himself not a capitalist.

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      You don’t really need a good argument to file a lawsuit. And Musk seems petty and short-sighted enough to try it.

      I’m not particularly fond of either, so I’m gonna make some popcorn and hope this blows up into the biggest shit storm possible.

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      Good ol’ fash brain rot. The idols are simultaneously genius who master plan everything like 5D chess, and poor victims who are marginalized and constantly being bullied by the big bad woke.

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    Maybe that was their game with the federation stuff. “Hey we didn’t start this, we were just following suit on this open source project”. Anyway this logic wouldn’t fly in any court, they can’t have a copyright on text-based social media. They can only own their branding. Musk is just throwing a hissy fit again

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      I think Elon is trying to say they’re stealing IP because lots of the Twitter employees he fired went to work on Threads. This is probably where the fediverse stuff comes in clutch, as they’re just implementing ActivityPub, so it’s not like it’s industry secrets or anything.

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        Yeah, people have suggested they believe Meta would/did use Twitter code. I don’t know why they would… Meta already has IG, which is set up almost exactly like Twitter, and if anything they could imitate code from Mastodon.