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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.