The company is clearly trying to make an example of the author who wrote about her time at the company. Her free speech should be protected This year’s Hay festival concluded with a strange spectacle. I was on a panel about the dangers of excessive tech power, alongside former Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams – who sat without saying anything on the advice of her lawyer. She had been silenced by Meta’s legal threats to bankrupt her if she spoke. Wynn-Williams has written a book, Careless People