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Meta’s attempt to silence ex-employee Sarah Wynn-Williams has drawn attention to its work on stifling freedom of expression in China
The behemoth in question is Meta, and when Careless People, a whistleblowing book by a former senior employee, Sarah Wynn-Williams, came out last week, its panic-stricken lawyers immediately tried to have it suppressed by the Emergency International Arbitral Tribunal. This strange institution obligingly (and sternly) enjoined Wynn-Williams “from making orally, in writing, or otherwise any ‘disparaging, critical or otherwise detrimental comments to any person or entity concerning [Meta], its officers, directors, or employees’ ”. What really infuriated him was that there was one huge area of the world – China – that was closed to him What comes across most forcibly from Wynn-Williams’s account is the extent to which Meta is really just a corporate extension of its Supreme Ruler’s personality, reminiscent of what Microsoft was like when Bill Gates ran it.
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