Julian Zelizer: Peiter Zatko’s Twitter complaint is serious, but it makes it seem amorphous and inchoate. He says the problem lies with the erosion of the concept of the whistleblower as a concept in contemporary life. Zelizer says it’s an imperfect system for meting out justice. Tech companies do so many bad things without consequence, it’s understandable that people may feel they have no option other than blowing the whistle on these companies, the way a civil servant might on a government. He writes: Whistleblowers used to be underdogs, willing to ruin their lives in the pursuit of the truth, but now they’re more like corporate-espionage influencers, whose actions put attention-seeking and material gain before . . .
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