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[–] [S] 109 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Spiro, who is acting on behalf of Twitter parent X Corp, claims that Meta has hired dozens of ex-Twitter employees over the last year. He claimed the company "deliberately assigned" them to work on Threads "with the specific intent that they use Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to accelerate development of Meta's competing app." He argued this violates state and federal laws as well as those employees' obligations to their former employer. In addition, Spiro said Meta is prohibited from scraping Twitter data relating to who people follow.

Oh, cry me a river. Dude fired a bunch of folks, Meta swooped them up, looked at their experience, then asked them to work where their experience is relevant.

Musk 100% did this with other people working in the auto industry. He hired folks from other auto and tech industries, and he hired folks with relevant experience in similar tech.

Fuck this guy.

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  • [–] 45 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    In California at least, "non-compete" clauses are illegal; Twitter here seems to be implying that they should be mandatory instead.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago

    It's not like they just left either, he forced them out, now he wants them to not take what was probably the best paying job. You don't get to control where other people work and don't work, there's a name for that.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Former Twitter employees? As if that means anything at all. Threads can get sued for all I care though. Whatever wastes both of their money is a great success.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago

    Fight, fight, fight, fight!

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    🍿

    (Apologies for the low effort post)

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  • Truly, from the bottom of my heart: LMAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOO

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Well we'll well. If it isn't the consequences of one's own actions

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    Let them fight while Mastodon and company build up their infrastructure.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Hope they bleed out each other.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    @Ghostalmedia This is just trying to hype up their boxing match /s.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    The letter accused Meta of misappropriating Twitter's trade secrets and said Meta hired former Twitter employees who retained proprietary information, the sources said.

    HAHAHAHAHA

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Oh poor baby.

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥💀

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I wonder if they will get sued by this clothing company. https://www.threads.net.au/ seems they would have more of a case than twitter.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    If our media was free, they would be ridiculing this action, and calling for more rights of employees.

    If courts made sense, they would throw this case before hearing it to not waste time.

    If unions were functional, they would have …

    Unfortunately, none of that is true and here we are.

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