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If you're a director of global public policy for seven years, who are you really whistleblowing, the company, or yourself? I appreciate the information coming

by vasco 2y ago

If you're a director of global public policy for seven years, who are you really whistleblowing, the company, or yourself? I appreciate the information coming out, but in some of these situations I can't help but picture that "the worst person in the room" in regards to the offenses might also end up being the person that then becomes the most holier than thou when they get out of the company. If you ever met someone who used to work in software ads and ask them about privacy you'll get what I mean.

dralley 2y ago
https://imgur.com/wTWW1fE https://imgur.com/wTWW1fE
FrancisMoodie 2y ago
I get your point, but also, so what? The point of this whistle-blowing is that the public gets to make informed decisions about these companies that provide us with services that much of us use daily, and that the government gets a chance to figure out whether this is the truth or not and take actions accordingly. It's not about who is guilty right now but what needs to be done to prevent this in the future, IMO. And whatever she might be guilty of doing, the chances of her ever having the same access to sensitive information in any company has gone drastically down after coming forward with this information.
Capricorn2481 2y ago
Everything is incentives of the company. People are not told to do something evil, they're told "We don't have the budget to look into that" or "don't do that until we hear from the higher-ups." I'm disinterested in who made what call because ultimately it's designed to be nebulous. Someone breaking out of that horrific cycle and telling us what it leads to is a good thing. Even though it will likely lead to nothing, like it did with Sophie Zhang [1] [1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whistleblower-memo?bfsource=relatedmanual https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...

by vasco 2y ago

dralley 2y ago

https://imgur.com/wTWW1fE https://imgur.com/wTWW1fE

FrancisMoodie 2y ago

I get your point, but also, so what? The point of this whistle-blowing is that the public gets to make informed decisions about these companies that provide us with services that much of us use daily, and that the government gets a chance to figure out whether this is the truth or not and take actions accordingly. It's not about who is guilty right now but what needs to be done to prevent this in the future, IMO. And whatever she might be guilty of doing, the chances of her ever having the same access to sensitive information in any company has gone drastically down after coming forward with this information.

Capricorn2481 2y ago

Everything is incentives of the company. People are not told to do something evil, they're told "We don't have the budget to look into that" or "don't do that until we hear from the higher-ups." I'm disinterested in who made what call because ultimately it's designed to be nebulous. Someone breaking out of that horrific cycle and telling us what it leads to is a good thing. Even though it will likely lead to nothing, like it did with Sophie Zhang [1] [1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whistleblower-memo?bfsource=relatedmanual https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...