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Reading your comment made me realize I don't know of a single time a notable whistleblower was protected or didn't get dragged through the mud in media in the p

• DannyBee 4y ago
  It's quite rare. I know someone who specializes in representing federal whistleblowers (IE folks who actually have some force of law that should be protecting them) and even then it's a tough gig when it shouldn't be. At least in the US, most real whistleblower protection is for federal government employees or related to federal government functions (IE waste/fraud/etc that costs the government money, or reporting on people who violate various federal agency acts, like wildlife or environmental protection, or cheating on taxes, or ...) Here's a quick rundown of the largest federal laws: https://www.whistleblowers.org/major-u-s-whistleblower-laws/ https://www.whistleblowers.org/major-u-s-whistleblower-laws/ You can see they mostly are not about "person discloses something about private corporation". To the degree it's protected, that kind of thing is often just a side-effect of other laws (IE labor relations laws, environmental laws, etc). So like, if you were to disclose something that isn't a crime, but is bad for society (chemical company knows it is killing honey bees or whatever), it's not really going to be protected that well. Particularly if it's about private corporations. It would have to probably be something like "chemical company is dumping honey-bee killing chemical in the water" to be protected (under some environmental act they are violating or something)