ABSTRACT

Government whistleblowers are those who disclose classified government documents in violation of the law but do so to bring to light serious government wrongdoing. Scholarly debates have identified various procedural requirements for whistleblowing, and this paper expands upon these insights by providing an account of Edward Snowden’s moderate theory and Julian Assange’s radical theory of government whistleblowing ethics. Through the practice of ethical listening, this essay places Snowden and Assange into conversation with academic theories of government whistleblowing. By including the previously neglected voices of real-world government whistleblowers and their publishers, this paper provides a more dynamic understanding of whistleblowing’s procedural requirements, interrogates the ethical paradigms of whistleblowers, and shows that different theories of government whistleblowing depend upon a wide range of assumptions about audience, professionalism, and ultimate aims.

摘要

政府举报人是指那些违反法律披露机密政府文件但这样做是为了揭露严重的政府不法行为的人。学术辩论已经确定了举报的各种程序要求，本文通过提供爱德华斯诺登的温和理论和朱利安阿桑奇的政府举报道德激进理论来扩展这些见解。通过道德倾听的实践，本文将斯诺登和阿桑奇与政府举报的学术理论进行了对话。通过纳入以前被忽视的现实世界政府举报人及其发布者的声音，本文提供了对举报程序要求的更加动态的理解，质疑举报人的道德范式，