Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely

Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by ITB on Sunday April 30, 2023 @10:48AM (#35763037)

On the other hand, there are people that look at whistleblowing as a way to propel into fame. They call themselves and whistleblowers when in reality they are just publicly critiquing their company over known facts. They give whistleblowing a bad reputation.

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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by jruohonen on Sunday April 30, 2023 @11:00AM (#35763147)

Sure; all kinds of motives may be involved. It would be interesting to read a study on how these laws and their practices have worked in practice and what kind of issues have been reported. From the article's references I found this:

https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx...

I suppose much of the reports have been about financial mishandling, work safety, and such things, maybe things like environment protection violations thrown in.

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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by klyrs on Sunday April 30, 2023 @11:20AM (#35763370)

Do you have examples of people who have been enriched by so-called whistleblowing?

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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by ITB on Sunday April 30, 2023 @11:43AM (#35763627)

I think Frances Haugen just wanted to be famous. She didn’t whistleblow anything really and yet called herself a whistleblower.

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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by throwaway27391 on Sunday April 30, 2023 @03:11PM (#35765656)

Frances Haugen did it pretty successfully and all turned out to be nothing

Ashley Gjovik's motive is $$, but so far nothing but the email from the CEO from months after she was fired [https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/01/nlrb_apple_labor_laws...]

[https://github.com/justiceatapple/Apple-Retaliation/blob/mai...] "my price is enough money to launch my human rights firm next to a beach house in Kona"

huge net with a disappointing catch, hopefully consulting is going well for her [https://github.com/justiceatapple/Apple-Retaliation/blob/mai...] [https://github.com/justiceatapple/Apple-Retaliation/blob/mai...]

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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by whitemary on Sunday April 30, 2023 @10:55AM (#35763090)

That's not whistleblowing, so no, it does not give whistleblowing a bad name. This is actually very simple.

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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by throwaway27391 on Sunday April 30, 2023 @03:23PM (#35765779)

the media labels them whistleblowers though so doesn't it?

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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by cjbgkagh on Sunday April 30, 2023 @10:54AM (#35763085)

I often wonder if such people are being encourage by those who seek to undermine the concept of whistleblowing as a whole. Like encouraging the appending of 'gate' to every scandal name, even trivial ones, to minimize the seriousness of Watergate.

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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by throwaway426079 on Sunday April 30, 2023 @11:05AM (#35763199)

Is the motivation to minimize the seriousness of Watergate? I just take it as a lazy way of tagging a story and I suspect many headline writers couldn't even summarise what the original Watergate scandal involved.

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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by whitemary on Sunday April 30, 2023 @10:56AM (#35763111)

Whistleblowers don't do that. The media does. Do you know what whistleblowing is?

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