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"If whistleblowers don't dare reveal crimes and lies, we lose the last shred of effective control over our government and institutions." Isn't there something
by lttlrck 13y ago
"If whistleblowers don't dare reveal crimes and lies, we lose the last shred of effective control over our government and institutions."
Isn't there something very wrong with this line of thinking? Are whistleblowers really the last bastions of democracy? Voters, protestors and guns be damned, when all is lost we can depend on the whistleblowers? Are you kidding me?
- mlinksva 13y agoThat was precisely my reaction when reading the article as published in Wired recently. It has some good ideas for increasing privacy. Too bad they are made to turn on an extremely weak claim.
- dwaltrip 13y agoGuns? Are you kidding me? You think it is more reasonanble forming militias to hold the government in line, if voting and protesting are ineffective?
- nooneelse 13y agoIf information from the inside is never whistle-blown, how will the people know to be upset about something, and who/what to vote, protest, bear arms for/against?