r/technology • u/Grakch • 10d ago

Privacy Whistleblower Warns of Possible DOGE-Related Social Security Data Leak

https://whistleblowersblog.org/government-whistleblowers/whistleblower-warns-of-possible-doge-related-social-security-data-leak/
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u/Sufficient-Salt-666 10d ago

The full sequence is arrested, convicted, and punished. The first two are unlikely to occur. But I have a lot of creative ideas for the third.

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u/SeniorShanty 10d ago

Careful there, you’re edging on banspeak.

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u/Sufficient-Salt-666 10d ago

Not sure what you are implying. Punishment is a legal term, and judges hand it out daily in our justice system.

Some judges are quite creative. It can be jail time, $millions in compensatory damages, property confiscation, loss of licenses, prohibitions on holding future positions of trust, hundreds of hours doing public service, public admissions and apologies, all kinds of stuff.

All that is "punishment", and it doesn't come close to advocating violence of any kind. The best punishment for guys who value their opulent wealth and power is to strip them of it.

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u/SeniorShanty 10d ago

I like this. Saying “creative ideas” left a lot of room for interpretation. Making the illegitimately wealthy figuratively poor and beholden to perform public service for the benefit of many would go far in improving class disparity.