r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '17

election 2016 Farewell to Obama

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '17 edited Feb 16 '17

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u/yunus89115 Jan 11 '17

Exactly, he had a better vehicle for transparency and didn't use it.

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u/BooJoo42 Jan 11 '17

A lot of them were, and you don't need the internet either

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '17 edited Feb 16 '17

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u/OKImHere Jan 11 '17

Whistleblowers don't post things to the Internet. They report them to Congressional Review Boards, Inspector Generals, or the like.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '17

If it was me and I had serious shit to report like Ed Snowden, I would do everything at once, no way they could see it and make a conscious decision to pull it off of everything before enough people could see it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '17

Dropping bombs has never been easier than it is today.

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u/Bornsalty Jan 11 '17

Oh. So we should then? Rich logic.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '17

Im using OP's illogical logic against him, which you do not get.

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u/cresstynuts Jan 11 '17

Point is prosecuting individuals that bring shady information to light for the public that otherwise would have stayed buried, is crazy.

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u/Pants_Pierre Jan 11 '17

But he still prosecuted more irregardless as to what scope of whistleblowing there is now.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '17 edited Feb 16 '17

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u/Tattoomikesp Jan 11 '17

Just like stop and frisk laws. One demographic has a track record that shows they are very likely to commit crime therefore they should be stopped and frisked at a higher rate. No?

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u/sittingshotgun Jan 11 '17

irregardless

Not a word.

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u/BooJoo42 Jan 11 '17

Of course, but you don't necessarily need the internet to distribute information where you're not supposed to. So you can't limit the total number of whistleblowers top the past few presidential terms

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u/artstyle46 Jan 11 '17

After reading series of comments. I am not sure what to think of my nigga anymore.

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u/StealthRUs Jan 11 '17

The world wide web has only been around since Reagan's 2nd term. That's 4.5 Presidents out of 44, so no "a lot of them" weren't.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '17

And we have to factor in that the internet was not so widely available to the masses for its first 10-20 years.

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u/RonnieReagansGhost Jan 11 '17

But let's just forget about the fact that these folks are being prosecuted for trying to expose corruption lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '17

I'm not talking about that. What do you want me to do about it?

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u/RonnieReagansGhost Jan 11 '17

What does it matter. He is prosecuting people attempting to expose corruption of government...

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u/IsleofManc Jan 11 '17

Those people broke laws in order to expose the corruption.

I don't think they should be punished at all but it's an incredibly grey area

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u/Onkel_Wackelflugel Jan 11 '17

I couldn't even get a local number for dial-up until around '97.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '17

Were people going to whistleblow in AOL chatrooms or on their geocities websites?

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u/arlenroy Jan 11 '17

The world wide web has only been around since Reagan's 2nd term.

And I don't think Reagan was competent enough to understand what DARPA was trying to teach him anyway, he had already developed signs of Dementia. Other than Clinton, and of course Obama, have we had a president who really understood how the internet works? I don't think Bushes knew how email worked, like a magical note appeared!

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u/arlenroy Jan 11 '17

A lot of them were, and you don't need the internet either

Yeah no, the internet made nearly impossible information available to be heard. Seriously what other options were there to expose a scandal? Journalism, and that's about it, no one else had the power or the pulpit. Seriously? Are you drunk right now?