rsynnott 19 hours ago

It's kind of amazing that people still hit this, really. Like, if you're Facebook's lawyers, how are you not telling them "don't talk about this; anything you say or do will only promote it further"? The lawyers must _know_.

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  • John23832 16 hours ago

    Competing incentives.

    Lawyers get paid to “do something”. To wealthy people, a lawyer saying “let’s actually not do anything” seems like a “what am I paying you for then” moment.

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  • lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 19 hours ago

    After reading the article, it seems plausible that they were advised against this and, well... didn’t care.

    (Perhaps it’s more accurate to say they did not think it would manifest but that’s not a fun play on words.)

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  • remus 19 hours ago

    From the lawyer's point of view I guess you're making a risk judgement, presumably they thought the chance of getting a successful court order outweighed the potential increase in press of they happened to fail.

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    • rsynnott 18 hours ago

      Even if they got a court order (they did get partial bars on publicity AIUI) it would _still make the problem for Facebook worse_, tho.

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      • remus 14 hours ago

        I'm not so sure. I think there is some selection bias happening, so it's easy to say "Streisand effect!" When it makes the headlines but that ignores the times it doesn't make the headlines.

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        • 3np an hour ago

          Yeah. How many were silenced prior to this?

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