I'm not an expert at corpo terminology either, so maybe "middle management" is wrong, but I'm certain "senior director" is still not part of the executive ranks.

Wikipedia has an overview about all of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

I don't think the employees/managers were just fall guys, but I don't believe for a second the execs knew nothing about what they did. And I find it suspicious that the employees seemingly plead guilty without a lawyer, as the article you're quoting says.

No, it doesn't. The convicted people were middle management, the execs involved just have to pay some money now. Notably as a settlement and not a verdict.

No, the thing about the word "quietly", as well as the thing about being vague generic statements instead of anything concrete, is being AI slop.

What's the beef between beehaw and lemmy.world?

Federal prosecutors have said the harassment included anonymous deliveries of items like live cockroaches and spiders, a funeral wreath, and a bloody pig face mask to the couple’s home. The employees also sent pornographic magazines with the husband’s name on them to a neighbor’s home and planned to break into the couple’s garage to install a GPS device on their car.

Holy shit.

Another company to the "never again" list. I'm running out of online places to buy from 🥲.

Only users and communities. I'm not really complaining if it changed, I'd just like to understand the feature. That said, I usually thought blocking is about preventing interaction, and not about hiding content.

Einerseits klingt das vom Prinzip schon richtig. Andererseits bin ich jetzt allerdings nicht der Meinung, dass BSW und FDP im aktuellen Bundestag zu haben wirklich hilfreich wäre.

Sorry, the "meme ecosystem"? What?

And let's assume the opposite side wins: Then there would be a ruling that if someone does not market their copyright and does not contest other people using it non-commercially, they also have to allow third others to use it commercially.

Which sounds to me like effectively abolishing the copyright system for anyone who can't afford paying lawyers to hunt down every little infringement, only leaving it up for wealthy corporations.

...so that's probably exactly how it's going to go, isn't it.

(Also, AI or not is really irrelevant for this case.)

There should be a law that if more than x% of the workforce is laid off, the entire C-suite has to go too.

Ugh. Whoever wins here, we lose.

Never heard of this. I have difficulty imagining where these Bluetooth mesh networks exist where they can cover more than a small neighborhood.