Submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/21/openai-whistleblower-dead-aged-26
Suchir Balaji, listed in court filing as having ‘relevant documents’ about copyright violation, died on 26 November
Whistle lower deaths need to be treated by the courts like other destruction of evidence, because that’s what it is. The jury being instructed to assume the most damaging version of what that evidence could have contained.
A whistleblower isn’t going to kill themselves out of nowhere. To get to that point they were undoubtedly being threatened by the company.
Or being killed directly by the company.
Hmm how would a potential witness protect themselves from being “suicided”
Bodycam 24/7 with live backups to the ACLU servers?
360 degree camera in every room in your house?
Curious…
Dead man’s switch that uploads a message to YouTube that’s basically “If you’re seeing this then i have been assassinated by the company. I did not kill myself, I was determined to testify. Because I will now no longer be able to, what follows is my testimony” and then do a tell all. Could work it out with a lawyer in advance, too.
This isn’t a bad idea.
You would need some external secret party that would quietly leak it.
Mate, it is extremely common for suicidal people to deny those thoughts. Here some stats, about 50 % deny it shortly before they actually do it.
Its things like this that remind you how little power we have and how little justice there really is. We all know he was killed.
All this talk about Luigi when the real story is the string of whistleblower deaths this year. Where’s the focused search for their killers?
All this talk about Luigi when the real story is the string of whistleblower deaths this year.
And not only that, but people worshipping Luigi. But yes, you are right, whistleblower deaths are far more interesting to me.
If you know of a way to take out Pinkertons… well, maybe you should just keep quiet about it because, well…
“died”
Word choice is telling. Where’s the “was killed”?
Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on 26 November in what police said “appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation.” The city’s chief medical examiner’s office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide.
His parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a “happy, smart and brave young man” who loved to hike and recently had returned from a trip with friends.
What is the comment of the parents supposed to tell us? When are parents of actually suicidal children aware of their issues and open about it instead of ignoring them and wanting to make sure that the outside thinks everything is just fine?
HorreC@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Its super odd, that nothing will happen as whistleblower after whistleblower die all the time, but we will protect any CEO that feels like they are in danger at all times. It would be something if these stats were 1:1. It seems when CEOs feel danger shit gets done.
MisterD@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Probably work from the ‘Department of Convenient Coincidences’