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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over the new Threads app (www.engadget.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Ghostalmedia to c/technology
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[–] Ghostalmedia 110 points 1 year 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.

[–] fubo 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ghostalmedia 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] agitatedpotato 39 points 1 year 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.

[–] someguy3 18 points 1 year ago

Oh, cry me a river

More like LMFAO. He facilitated his own competition in more ways than one.

[–] falconfetus8 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Izzy 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] twent4 9 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] Chickenstalker 18 points 1 year ago

Fight, fight, fight, fight!

[–] solidgrue 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

🍿

(Apologies for the low effort post)

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

i'd like caramel and chocolate on mine plz 🤣

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] echo_w 7 points 1 year ago

[–] croobat 6 points 1 year ago

Hope they bleed out each other.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh poor baby.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥💀

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

Threads was a short lived thing back in 2021. Easier to clear through internal legal approval on a trademark that you’re sitting on.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-its-companion-app-threads-by-year-end/

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

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