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fwlr ◴[] No.44505910[source]
The FTC was warned at the time that they were flouting required procedures and that their rule would therefore not survive legal scrutiny. Lo and behold it did not.
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1. dboreham ◴[] No.44506022[source]
Because systematic corruption presumably?
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2. jibe ◴[] No.44506139[source]
If you are sniffing out corruption, aren’t the ones flouting required procedures likely the corrupt ones?
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3. Aeolun ◴[] No.44506211[source]
Kinda, but corruption in my favor is unlikely to see me complain about it.
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4. tbrownaw ◴[] No.44506321[source]
More that they mistakenly thought that doing the right thing meant they didn't have to do the thing right.
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5. bjt12345 ◴[] No.44506475[source]
But, if you want to make it look like you are doing the right thing but don't want to be remembered as having done that right thing, maybe this was the right thing to do given that now it won't be done.
6. weberer ◴[] No.44507715[source]
>they were flouting required procedures
7. wqaatwt ◴[] No.44507990[source]
What if the “required procedures” are held in place by corruption?
8. wrasee ◴[] No.44508014{3}[source]
That’s obviously no justification, all corruption is in someone’s favour. Society functions by rules. Break those founding principles and you break everything.
9. hshdhdhj4444 ◴[] No.44508135[source]
Almost never.

Whistleblowers are almost always revealing information that they are legally prevented from revealing, otherwise you wouldn’t need a whistleblower. A simple FOIA request would suffice.

10. techpineapple ◴[] No.44508596[source]
Right, if they were screwing over customers, we’d call it disruption and give them a medal, if not $1 billion dollars. Since they’re trying to help people, we wag our fingers at them.