Maybe a lot of whistlers end up face down in ditch or just disappear.<p>You can really blow the whistle in countries where justice system somehow protects you. Even in those countries this isn't given (Snowden and Assange for instance).
"Snitches get Stitches"<p>The malefactors are more powerful and vindictive than the whistleblowers.<p>There are no practical legal protections for whistleblowers. Being a whistleblower is a mug's game.
Future employment opportunities in the industry, often forces whistle-blowers to have to retrain and work in other sectors.<p>David Icke blew the whistle on himself on live TV and now look at him. Society wont let him out of the hole that they forced him to dig!<p>Market forces, peer pressure, reputational damage, all the things whistle-blowers will have to contend with for the rest of their life, and all because someone exploited a vulnerability in David Icke in a legal seemingly harmless, if not "bit of fun" way.<p>And whilst news outlets are not future tellers, they still employ the same legal tactics to get their story, casting the whistle-blower into the gutter once the story has run its course and made some people a little bit richer.<p>There is also a darker side to whistleblowing, it can put your life on the line as others have found out. Project Fear is the ultimate control mechanism in so many ways.