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Whistleblower laws allow you to blow the whistle to a government agency, not to the press or the public in general.
by thomascgalvin 7y ago
Whistleblower laws allow you to blow the whistle to a government agency, not to the press or the public in general.
- logfromblammo 7y agoWhistleblower laws are a con. Principled reporters have never been treated fairly in the US. It's the same crap as "responsible disclosure"; it just gives the organization time to assemble the cover up. Publish without warning in the public interest, and the public will see the truly responsible party with their hands unclean. Graciously give them six months to clean up their act, and they will instead use it to clean up their mess--which is actually just you. Publish afterward, and you will find that the plan to discredit and humiliate you was already loaded and ready to fire.
- arrosenberg 7y agoCourts have thrown out NDAs before because they were unreasonable or unconscionable - Snowden would argue that he signed an NDA under the pretense that the government was behaving according to its' own laws, and that the NDA should be thrown out because that reasonable expectation was violated.
- dredmorbius 7y agoSource?