Rockstar had a mole in the union worker discord server(rockpapershotgun.com) |
Rockstar had a mole in the union worker discord server(rockpapershotgun.com) |
Is this legal in the UK?
I'm not sure it is in unionisation fights, particularly in an industry as tightly knit as gaming. You're trading a short-term kiss from management for being hated across the industry. That forecloses all kinds of career opportunities outside the majors. In game theory, this sort of repeated interaction is exactly what incentivises cooperation.
We don't know what benefits they received from defecting anyhow
How would Rockstar being shown to have had a mole in the union advance Rockstar's interests?
Rockstar deserves no sales.
>However, while workers at Nintendo have yet to unionise, the company has previously been accused of interfering with unionisation efforts. A QA contractor made the allegations in 2022, saying they had been fired after asking about unionisation - although Nintendo insisted the firing happened because the worker had disclosed "confidential information".
Sounds a lot like this case.
You wanted your IPO money, Discord? Suing the shit out of RockStar and winning is the way to go here.
The mole shared access credentials - forbidden by Discord's ToS and by UK's law. This is very plain and simple to anyone with half a rasher of logic about them.
It's honestly a great example on why we need proper labor laws; it's the only way to truly keep companies "honest".
Were account sharing criminally illegal, then I think that would be the obvious first target.
So we're suddenly for abusing hacking legislation to prosecute people, just because in this case the target isn't sympathetic?
I asked how making up a Rockstar mole in the union would advance any of Rockstar's goals at this junction.
That still feels like a form of entrapment, though. Unless this story is fuzzy and the mole themselves simply shared the chat logs hemselves. But the story makes it sound like the Abid Ansari himself got in.
I suppose more information will come out in court, if the matter is settled beforehand.
You're saying Rockstar would make up a mole that didn't exist, now, and that would somehow help it keep the union dissolved? What?
Your hypothesis is Rockstar made up a fake mole, buried it, let the opposition find it and put it in a legal filing, and this somehow helps them. Got it.
If this isn't a troll account I'm worried.
I'm literally not seeing the throughline from A to B. It's like saying a greedy capitalist nuked himself as a gotcha. Like, how does that help him? I'm not saying he isn't capable of it. I just literally don't see how it helps him.