There's a letter circulating in Facebook purporting to be from a company named "The Meta Company" in which the company founder outlines bullying tactics used by Facebook lawyers to try to buy their [whatever] because [reasons]. With no sale agreed to, Facebook simply bullied its way into a rather boring company name that isn't really all that unique except in its blandness.
It has the appearance of the typical American story of the underdog planning to soldier on despite enormous odds and the oodles of cash the big bully corporation has to make the problem go away.
It also has another typically American thing about it: It smells like horse doots.
Cursory Internet searches on The Meta Company and Chicago - clues from the widely-circulating letter - and the name of the founder of this "bullied" company, also found in the letter, bring up news stories about the letter, but nothing else.
This is the most thorough story I can find on the controversey.
Equally vague is the company's own website. If there's any livelihood being taken away, it's not clear what that livelihood looks like from the company's own mouth. (Letter presented below in case it disappears.)
I'm not saying Facebook isn't a bully or worse, just that this particular story doesn't really pass the smell test.
Back to the Meat Planet . . .
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