How the fuck is it even remotely legal for a politician to sign an NDA with a corporation to hide information from their constituents?

  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
    35·
    5 days ago

    If you can’t afford the time or money to defend yourself from a SLAPP lawsuit, the legality doesn’t matter much anymore. It is unfortunately in most peoples best financial interests to not personally test the legality of unenforceable BS.

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

      Exactly, corporations care not for the legality. It’s just that the very existence of a signed NDA opens up the power to suit, countersuit or in general drown a person in so many administrative fees that they are condemned to eternal poverty anyway. Whether the actual text is legal or not is irrelevant. An NDA is a weapon in many other ways.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      Yup. When the punishment is financial, rules only exist for the poor. Same as when you can’t defend yourself in court. System is rigged.