It looks like the ex-DDG employee got the details wrong, and read the slides backwards.

  • Chunk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If I understand correctly the article is a lie. The author “misunderstood” what they were reading.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlOP
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      1 year ago

      In that case Google wouldn’t “threaten the hell out of the employee”, they’d send a cease and desist to Wired, the company. Which, given that these documents are apparently considered confidential by the court, would make a lot more sense.