Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely
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Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely
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Re: Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely
#2In the EU we already have a law for protecting whistleblowers:
https://commission.europa.eu/aid-development-cooperation-fun...
Also companies have emerged for providing secure platforms for whistleblowers.
Though, as national security and related things are in the hands of the member states, I am not sure how well this EU law and its national adaptations apply to the cases discussed in this article (probably wholesale exemptions have been adopted by the member states at this front).
EDIT #1: At some point they also tried to draft a law for protecting people involved in vulnerability disclosure, which would have been great, but I think this lawmaking proposal failed.
EDIT #2: I should have read the article better; it seems similar laws exist also in the US.
Re: Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely
#3In the EU we already have a law for protecting whistleblowers: https://commission.europa.eu/aid-development-cooperation-fun... Also companies have emerged for providing secure platforms for whistleblowers. Though, as national security and related things are in the hands of the member states, I am not sure how well this EU law and its national adaptations apply to the cases discussed in this article (probably wholesal…
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Re: Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely
#4On the other hand, there are people that look at whistleblowing as a way to propel into fame. They call themselves and whistleblowers when in reality they are just publicly critiquing their company over known facts. They give whistleblowing a bad reputation.
Re: Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely
#5On the other hand, there are people that look at whistleblowing as a way to propel into fame. They call themselves and whistleblowers when in reality they are just publicly critiquing their company over known facts. They give whistleblowing a bad reputation.
I often wonder if such people are being encourage by those who seek to undermine the concept of whistleblowing as a whole. Like encouraging the appending of 'gate' to every scandal name, even trivial ones, to minimize the seriousness of Watergate.
EDIT: I should point out that an effective strategy to undermine opposition is to encourage the worst in them by secretly supporting those who embody the worst. When doing this it helps to have contacts in the media on your payroll.
Re: Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely
#6On the other hand, there are people that look at whistleblowing as a way to propel into fame. They call themselves and whistleblowers when in reality they are just publicly critiquing their company over known facts. They give whistleblowing a bad reputation.
That's not whistleblowing, so no, it does not give whistleblowing a bad name. This is actually very simple.
Re: Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely
#7Because there's asymmetric of impact and incentive.
If I leak some politicians' corrupt dealing, practically no much impact to general folks (because direct impact is divided to millions of people), but for those politicians directly impacted, absolute negative and they have all the incentive including power to do so to silence the whistle-blower.
Re: Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely
#8In the EU we already have a law for protecting whistleblowers: https://commission.europa.eu/aid-development-cooperation-fun... Also companies have emerged for providing secure platforms for whistleblowers. Though, as national security and related things are in the hands of the member states, I am not sure how well this EU law and its national adaptations apply to the cases discussed in this article (probably wholesal…
The US also has laws protecting whistleblowers, which to me just highlighted the complete moral bankruptcy of some Republican members of the US Congress when they tried to out the whistleblower who brought Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president to light, but more importantly, when they tried to impugn his motives.
The thing that made me so angry about this is that a huge point of whistleblower laws is that it doesn't matter what the motives of the whistleblower are. Of course many whistleblowers are disgruntled for various reasons, but who cares? Whistleblowing laws aren't about taking the whistleblower's accusations at face value, it's just about protecting whistleblowers' ability to bring inside information and evidence to light, and then that information can be investigated independently.
The push by folks like Rand Paul to expose and condemn the whistleblower was one of the most disgusting political acts I've ever seen.
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Re: Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely
#10On the other hand, there are people that look at whistleblowing as a way to propel into fame. They call themselves and whistleblowers when in reality they are just publicly critiquing their company over known facts. They give whistleblowing a bad reputation.
I often wonder if such people are being encourage by those who seek to undermine the concept of whistleblowing as a whole. Like encouraging the appending of 'gate' to every scandal name, even trivial ones, to minimize the seriousness of Watergate. EDIT: I should point out that an effective strategy to undermine opposition is to encourage the worst in them by secretly supporting those who embody the worst. When doing…
Whistleblowers don't do that. The media does. Do you know what whistleblowing is?