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[–] asal 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Poaching Twitter employees and stealing “trade secrets”.

Because you know, it has nothing to do with the fact that Threads is basically just Instagram with no pictures.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This moron fired almost all team before that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is just delicous

[–] coldv 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also according the Meta communications director, "No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that's just not a thing,"

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/07/1186367564/threads-meta-twitter-lawsuit

Elon fired so many people he just thought some bound to have ended up in that team and was just shooting in the dark.

[–] ziggurism 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol that’s hilarious. Court case will probably just be quietly withdrawn. Or loudly thrown out.

[–] coldv 1 points 1 year ago

I like the thought of a long awkward silence in the courtroom and Elon's lawyer quietly shuffle out.

[–] ziggurism 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn’t the FTC in the process of banning non-compete agreements? So the rules that Musk is claiming were broken are on their way out?

[–] axtualdave 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NCAs are already largely unenforceable anyway. Federal and state laws prohibit them except in cases of direct competition and the employee having specialized knowledge or skills. And even then, they can't be for long periods of time, and if they would prevent the employee from a livelihood they can't be enforced.

Usually what happens is someone who has a NCA will be hired by a new employer. That employer will see how long the NCA is in force and just have the employee on the payroll but not working until it expires. That, or they will pay the penalty in the NCA, whichever is cheaper.

[–] ziggurism -5 points 1 year ago

Twitter is in direct competition with Facebook/meta/threads. And Twitter layoffs were 6 months or less ago. And these guys presumably have specialized knowledge.

So it seems like many of the criteria would be met.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And it's already illegal in California where both Twitter and Facebook are headquartered

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

NCA usually for employees that resigned. That would be messed up if they can just hire some smart people and immediately fires them to block them for joining competitors