• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldOP
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    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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      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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        Hopefully this suit doesn’t go anywhere and doesn’t make it to the Supreme Court. I those morons, who know nothing about tech, totally voting in favor of Musk.

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      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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      Not only that, but Meta is even claiming that they don’t have any former Twitter employees. Sounds like Musk is projecting. Either that, or he’s grasping at straws.

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      I wouldn’t be surprised if meta not only hired ex-tech employees, but also hired ex-legal employees.

      IRC twitter fired half of all its legal dept.

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    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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      They would’ve brought “trade secrets” with them, such as knowing how to code…? Elon has been saying he’s going to “rewrite the stack” himself so it can’t be that fancy, eh?

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    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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    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.