is (not) a whistleblower: Ideographs, whistleblower protections, and restrictions of speech

Q2 Social Sciences
Joshua Guitar
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ABSTRACT Edward Snowden’s revelations ignited public discourse on whistleblowing and whistleblower protection legislation. Given the polemics over whistleblower distinctions throughout mediated exchanges between US officials and the press, this manuscript constitutes a synchronic ideographic analysis of pertinent, recognized ideographs as they were operationalized in relation to whistleblowing within the Snowden discourse. While news media and the public agreed that Snowden operated as a whistleblower, the US government adamantly denied this classification. Instead, US officials manufactured a media trial, and in three distinct phases, purged whistleblowing from the public forum, rhetorically criminalized Snowden as a threat to national , and utilized whistleblowing as a means to propagate the war on and defend covert surveillance. These processes afforded US officials the ability to funnel whistleblowers through private channels, effectively neutralizing the public power of whistleblowers. It is argued that removing whistleblowers from the public forum, while packaged as a protective measure for whistleblowers, operates as a defensive measure for state officials and authoritarianism writ large as it disarms a democratic populace of a foundational tool of free speech and dissent.
是(不是)告密者:象形文字、告密者保护和言论限制
摘要爱德华·斯诺登的爆料引发了公众对举报和保护举报人立法的讨论。考虑到在美国官员和媒体之间的调解交流中,关于告密者区别的争论,这份手稿构成了对相关的、公认的表意文字的同步表意分析,因为它们在斯诺登话语中与告密有关。尽管新闻媒体和公众一致认为斯诺登是告密者,但美国政府坚决否认这一说法。相反,美国官员制造了一场媒体审判,分三个不同阶段,从公共论坛上清除告密行为,口头上将斯诺登定为对国家的威胁,并利用告密作为宣传战争和捍卫秘密监视的手段。这些程序使美国官员有能力通过私人渠道引导举报人,有效地削弱了举报人的公共权力。有人认为,将举报人从公共论坛上除名,虽然被包装成对举报人的保护措施,但对国家官员来说,这是一种防御措施,威权主义在很大程度上削弱了民主民众的言论自由和异议的基本工具。
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First Amendment Studies
First Amendment Studies Social Sciences-Law
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期刊介绍: First Amendment Studies publishes original scholarship on all aspects of free speech and embraces the full range of critical, historical, empirical, and descriptive methodologies. First Amendment Studies welcomes scholarship addressing areas including but not limited to: • doctrinal analysis of international and national free speech law and legislation • rhetorical analysis of cases and judicial rhetoric • theoretical and cultural issues related to free speech • the role of free speech in a wide variety of contexts (e.g., organizations, popular culture, traditional and new media).
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