Wynn-Williams was there last weekend—and on stage to support her book. But she didn’t say a word out loud. In fact, she didn’t even nod or shake her head for the hour she was on stage. The discussion of the book, instead, was handled by journalist Carole Cadwalladr and academic Tim Wu.
“I think this might be a Hay first, in which we have an author in a hostage situation,” Cadwalladr said while introducing the panel. “Blink once if you can hear us, Sarah, twice if [Mark] Zuckerberg is an asshole.”
While Meta was unable to stop “Careless People” from being published (or from becoming #1 on the New York Times bestseller list or named best book of the year by Time, The New Yorker, AP and more), it has been able to keep Wynn-Williams from saying more.
The order prevents her from publicly discussing aspects of the book with fines of $50,000 each time she does. The panelists, not surprisingly, had a lot to say about this.
“This is not how you conduct crisis comms,” said Cadwalladr. “Crisis comms would just be simply to ignore this and deprive it of oxygen. This is a kind of trolling-like behavior against their enemies.”
Wu labeled it as censorship, saying “This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”
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