An individual holds information that is in the public good to be released.
Said individual is threatened with significant harm by states if the information is released.
Only those with tremendous conscious, like Snowden or Manning, step up in the face of odds like that.
Financial compensation shifts the balance to make dangerous humanitarian disclosures more self-interested. It means that more information that should be public becomes public.
Said individual is threatened with significant harm by states if the information is released.
Only those with tremendous conscious, like Snowden or Manning, step up in the face of odds like that.
Financial compensation shifts the balance to make dangerous humanitarian disclosures more self-interested. It means that more information that should be public becomes public.
What's wrong with that?