When I try to persuade people that NDA’s cannot actually bind them to silence (though they can condition continued employment), they act as if I’d deny them their liberty to surrender what is theirs to surrender, or worse, deny them the opportunity to demonstrate due loyalty to their employer (“Yes, I shall keep your trivial secrets and respect your petty embargoes on pain of jail and/or bankruptcy”).

I have a hunch people would gladly sell themselves into slavery if there wasn’t a blasted law against it.