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https://www.npr.org/2020/05/12/854998616/in-settlement-faceb... > Some of the content moderators were earning $28,800 a year, the technology news site The Verge found last year. In this particular case, the legal costs are probably pretty ruinous.
I think you'll find the person in question's title is quite far from content moderator.
I guess I just don’t understand contracts and laws. Your employment agreement can include stuff like “if you say anything bad about us, even to your family in your own home, you owe us $50,000”. What in the world?? I guess NDA’s are like that, and used everywhere. Still it just seems wild
> I guess I just don’t understand contracts and laws. What's to understand? Person agrees to thing. Person is held to thing.
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There's (perhaps unfortunately) nothing stopping you from signing away your freedom of speech.
In a normal society courts should be protecting from signing away basic freedoms
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It's a condition of the severance payment. She didn't need to sign it. She wanted the money. Then she violated the terms of the contract.
I'm not a lawyer but even if it was, eg. a year's salary at the time she accepted it, is that really a fair price for a lifetime of silence?
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That should be illegal, too. Or the permissible scope of such an agreement heavily limited.
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— the law (https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unconscionability)
In Asia, it's not uncommon to see healthy drinks for children that are sugar+artificial flavouring with huge marketing campaigns targetting the parents . The corporation makes millions and then advertises how they donated $10k to an obesity charity.
https://archive.is/DmiOw
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Those that are deemed inalienable.
Please enumerate these inaliable basic freedoms that I should not be able to deal in.