Boeing whistleblower before death: "If anything happens, it's not suicide"

https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-whistleblower-warning-not-suicide

by Geekette • 2 years ago

203 30 2 years ago

Jtsummers2• 2 years ago

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Several previous submissions and two previous discussions on this same topic (one with 14 comments and one with 70 comments). All in the last few hours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712618 - another with 351 comments from about 11 hours ago

theultdev5• 2 years ago

Maybe this one will stick this time. I see people are flagging it heavily.

I vouched it, because it's a worthy discussion to have, and it should stay up so people can see it.

The other two were knocked off the top 20+ pages within a few minutes, you'd only notice it if you got lucky.

@dang, can we have an intervention here? Maybe merge the two other dupes together and allow the discussion to be had? People clearly want to talk about it.

edgyquant• 2 years ago

I don’t understand why anyone would flag it. Yea it’s definitely worth having and worse case scenario it’s proven to be a suicide. But on the off chance it wasn’t it deserves to be looked into and companies shouldn’t be allowed to silence these things

reaperman2• 2 years ago

Rank speculation about newsworthy deaths never go well on HN and historically have caused more pain for family and friends, and contributed to large amounts of misinformation being spread. I'm speaking specifically of Bob Lee, and also Tony Hsieh.

You say "Maybe this one will stick this time" but the main posting about this received over 360 comments, which is a lot for HN. It's not like the whole thing has just been nuked with no chance for productive discussion. But I'm not seeing much productive discussion. I don't mind these being de-ranked for now.

If it turns out to be an eBay stalking scandal type story, then we'll have a lot to talk about.

If it turns out that even being a successful whistleblowing can lead to life experience so awful that you want to kill yourself halfway through the depositions, then maybe we can talk about what can we as a society can provide whistleblowers to help them navigate these incredibly difficult times (financially, emotionally, socially, and spiritually).

ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

What are you talking about? The big one from earlier isn't flagged? This is a [dupe].

People saw it. People talked about it. And are still.

Direct to the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712618

MilStdJunkie• 2 years ago

A single Boeing subsidiary - under 300m revenue - had a Social Media budget of 7m/year. That's two percent of revenue. Now imagine what capital-B-Boeing's social media budget is, and think about what a primitive -if awesome! - platform YN is. Something to keep in mind.

dang2• 2 years ago

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712618.

Boeing whistleblower before death: "If anything happens, it's not suicide"

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