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You don't have to be part of it. If you find out that you are part of it then just quit. But by blowing the whistle you endanger thousands of lives, and you thi

• Fnoord 10y ago
  > It's not OK. You want to fight the freedom fight? Go work in politics. Don't screw your own country. Except, whistleblowing generally doesn't work like that. It is not as if someone joins an organisation with the intention of blowing the whistle. If you look into the story of a whistleblower (countless of examples available), you'll see they're just hard working employees who work for their employee, and who stand behind their employee (regardless of if the employee is a government or a company or an NGO). What happens then, is the person decides to become a whistleblower because if this is being cover-up or silenced, it is wrong. IOW, they notice wrong doings the general public ought to know. Lets forget all the obvious examples of Binney, Snowden, Manning, and the like. Take for example the whistleblowing on Jacob Appelbaum alleged sexual harassment. Those people who blowed the whistle weren't "out to get him". As far as they were concerned they never wanted to blow a whistle, and just lead a happy (employed/) life and their current employer. Even someone like Assange 'grew into it' somehow, and he's both an outlier and an agent _for_ whistleblowers. [] Or, if not being paid, volunteer.
• ionised 10y ago
  > But by blowing the whistle you endanger thousands of lives Waiting for you to present your concrete evidence backing this claim up.