[monsieurbanana]

No, most of us don't have that kind of secrets.

I have secrets, but if someone were to leak them nobody would seriously employ the term "whisteblower".

Implying that because someone doesn't want to stay quiet when he sees unethical/unlawful things they can't be trusted on a personal level is a dehumanizing thing to say.

I might be breaking a rule here, but this comment could probably be found verbatim in some company's playbook to discourage whiteblowing.

[mewpmewp2]

Imagine someone blows the whistle on you liking K-Pop. By the way, I don't like it at all. But just imagine if you were to like it and someone was to blow the whistle. I seriously haven't listened to K-Pop at all, I know it's just an embarrassing thing people do.

[plagiarist]

That's not whistleblowing, that's being a jackass. Whistleblowing is reporting illegal or unethical behavior that is causing real harm to people.

[mewpmewp2]

Imagine hanging out with Snowden, you both have done a few rounds of pints. Suddenly you slip up about your music preferences. Next thing you know, tomorrow you see a tweet on Snowden's Twitter account and thousands of comments laughing at you.

[I_Am_Nous]

That's not whistleblowing[1]. Whistleblowing is a legal term, not a "slipped up and told my mate's secret" event.

1. https://www.dni.gov/ICIG-Whistleblower/what-is.html

[mewpmewp2]

I was trying to be satirical, but maybe out of place.

[meiraleal]

Out of place and a senseless insistence on being wrong.