Joshua Dean, one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit AeroSystems execs had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died after a sudden illness.
This is how you end up with police making up an “anonymous tip” which allows them to gain a warrant and dig through the personal possessions of anyone they don’t like.
The problem isn’t solve with anonymity, but by actually protecting the whistle blowers.
I don’t care who it is, they give the information, then authorities verify it. If it comes up verified, there you go.
Sometimes you can’t verify things though
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Then it still doesn’t matter. If an identified source gives information that isn’t verifiable, it’s still not actionable.
Look! Another Boeing fell from the sky!
-verified
another boeing went boing boing
… there’s an awful song in there somewhere
This is how you end up with police making up an “anonymous tip” which allows them to gain a warrant and dig through the personal possessions of anyone they don’t like.
The problem isn’t solve with anonymity, but by actually protecting the whistle blowers.
The authorities should be able to dig through the possessions of massive companies that are fucking up so bad that planes fall out of the sky.