Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected]
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected].
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
Why is everyone here afraid to name the companies?
Unless you're sharing something that only you would know and the company is aware that you're the only one who knows it, there's no way they can identify you.
Something tells me the people posting here who had "NDAs" didn't actually have any sort of a high level clearance to important information.
It's a bold assumption that you will never dox yourself or be doxed. The fediverse by nature not at all private.
Yup. I was able to identify the employee running my company's subreddit that was hosting a current/former employee hatefest and many, many leaks, fueling RTO protests and unionization. Took all of about 30 mins of digging through his comments to figure it out. I never acted on it because I support everything about what it would lead to, but if I could figure it out, so could someone smarter than me who works for the interests of my company. He was still at the company, last I checked about six months ago.
Yeah I'm just gonna have to take my old reddit strategy of rolling a new account once a month.
So... avoiding mentioning the company name will help an individual if they're doxed while talking about it?
Do you really believe this?
Yeah it's not like these companies that do shady/illegal shit to save money go out and hire the best PIs and exCIA ops to find people who shit talk them. They use google and type in their business name with an extra word or two about their bad actions to find people who shit talk them.
"It's not like"
Just say they do. Don't try to beat around the bush. Don't play leapfrog with yourself, lol.
Just be direct about what you want to say. Own it.
You'll come off as less pretentious.
If an account posts enough vague info, eventually when you piece them all together they're not so vague anymore.
That's not even close to that I said.
If you say a bunch of things that would get you in trouble on your anonymous account, then over a period of time say enough other things to dox yourself, all your old account content is still there. Over time a little slip here, a little slip there. You put enough pins on the board, someone can find you, hell you might even accidentally talk about something unique. Happens all the time.
It's a risk for no good reason. Your're taking the risk so that some other nameless person on a social media instance can go ohhhhhh that company did bad things.
Sorry, I didn't read any of that.
People are scared to death to talk about their company publicly because we are trained to have that fear.
It's pretty wild how ingrained it can be and how much power it gives the company to do whatever they want with no fear of consequences.
There are plenty of ways to identify you with the right subpoenas. People don't name companies because suing for an NDA breach is easy money for the legal team the company might have on retainer.
Something a slimy, unethical, in-house lawyer told me about NDA's (he also happened to be Isreali). "They can ask for anything they want in the NDA. Enforcing the clauses is another matter."
It's always a good idea to have an NDA looked at by a lawyer who can tell what is enforcable vs. hogwash before or even after you sign it.
BTW he put some doozies in the NDA they wanted me to sign to keep quiet about their business. Had me laughing for days.. I got 6 months of full wage + benefits and job relocation services out of that one. Since I was officially laid off, I also got unemployment as well.
Financially it was one of my best years.
Especially the ones talking about health code violations. Fucking tell us who they are and then report them to the appropriate agency, that shit is scary.
Some companies are vindictive about their NDAs and even the fediverse servers can be sued for info. It's not necessarily about whether the info is important, it's about their overall reputation and sending a signal to future employees.
Lol, no it can't. You can't sue a protocol, lmao.
You are incredibly naive. The servers exist somewhere, email addresses are verified and every user has an IP address. Even without legal action, databases everywhere are regularly hacked and leaked. I prefer to stand by agreements made and treat other people with respect.
Lol, sure bro.
Yeah this shit is fucking lame.