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Maybe if you're lying about your app and policies, it's probably not a good idea to bring a newspaper into your offices! Especially when its blatently obvious y

Maybe if you're lying about your app and policies, it's probably not a good idea to bring a newspaper into your offices! Especially when its blatently obvious you're looking to use your app to either blackmail or leak this information for your own gain. The Guardian is a newspaper, it acted exactly how it should have. If I knowingly invite a cop into my house and I've got a pound of cocaine on my coffee table. Is it unethical for the cop to arrest me? No. They're a fucking cop! If you don't want people knowing shady parts of your business, don't invite people who make a living publishing stories about shady goings on!

tomp 12y ago
It doesn't really need to be a cop/reporter. If you're doing something unethical/illegal, don't show nor tell me, period! If you do, count on me reporting on it, if nothing else to save my ass. Unless you're a really good friend, that is, and even in that case there would be a big ethical dilemma (I would probably still report on you if you harm another person).
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a3n 12y ago
No, it's an excellent idea to bring in outsiders when you're lying! I hope it catches on!
- HillRat 12y ago
  I genuinely can't understand the thought processes of the nabobs who think the Grauniad acted inappropriately here. My first response was, "Journalism is not the priesthood," and considered it similar to interviewing Frank Underwood on background and not reporting on his history of blackmail and murder. But it's really even simpler than that -- it's as if Nixon went on Meet the Press and started bragging on-air about black-bag jobs to Spivak. Under what journalistic conventions wouldn't you report it out? Certainly makes you wonder what Business Insider isn't reporting. (By the way, I apologize -- I mis-clicked when upvoting your comment, and had to upvote a few past comments to rectify the error. I posit my poor hand-eye coordination is the result of either too many espressos or not enough; I'll pull a few more shots and report back on the results.)
  - a3n 12y ago
    > By the way, I apologize We'll get through this. :)

tomp 12y ago

It doesn't really need to be a cop/reporter. If you're doing something unethical/illegal, don't show nor tell me, period! If you do, count on me reporting on it, if nothing else to save my ass. Unless you're a really good friend, that is, and even in that case there would be a big ethical dilemma (I would probably still report on you if you harm another person).

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a3n 12y ago

No, it's an excellent idea to bring in outsiders when you're lying! I hope it catches on!

HillRat 12y ago
I genuinely can't understand the thought processes of the nabobs who think the Grauniad acted inappropriately here. My first response was, "Journalism is not the priesthood," and considered it similar to interviewing Frank Underwood on background and not reporting on his history of blackmail and murder. But it's really even simpler than that -- it's as if Nixon went on Meet the Press and started bragging on-air about black-bag jobs to Spivak. Under what journalistic conventions wouldn't you report it out? Certainly makes you wonder what Business Insider isn't reporting. (By the way, I apologize -- I mis-clicked when upvoting your comment, and had to upvote a few past comments to rectify the error. I posit my poor hand-eye coordination is the result of either too many espressos or not enough; I'll pull a few more shots and report back on the results.)
- a3n 12y ago
  > By the way, I apologize We'll get through this. :)