Suchir Balaji, listed in court filing as having ‘relevant documents’ about copyright violation, died on 26 November

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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    913 days ago

    Hmm how would a potential witness protect themselves from being “suicided”

    Bodycam 24/7 with live backups to the ACLU servers?

    360 degree camera in every room in your house?

    Curious…

    • @[email protected]
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      1513 days ago

      Dead man’s switch that uploads a message to YouTube that’s basically “If you’re seeing this then i have been assassinated by the company. I did not kill myself, I was determined to testify. Because I will now no longer be able to, what follows is my testimony” and then do a tell all. Could work it out with a lawyer in advance, too.

      • Possibly linux
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        613 days ago

        This isn’t a bad idea.

        You would need some external secret party that would quietly leak it.

        • @[email protected]
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          112 days ago

          You could just have a server up and running, paid several months in advance, that did it automatically but you might want a human (i would think a lawyer) to also be involved.

      • @Eheran
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        13 days ago

        Mate, it is extremely common for suicidal people to deny those thoughts. Here some stats, about 50 % deny it shortly before they actually do it. So saying “I will no kill myself” is really useless.

        • @[email protected]
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          513 days ago

          I’m not sure that’s generalizable to this scenario. That’s also pretty time constrained. Besides that, was there any evidence this person was depressed or otherwise suicidal? Maybe there is but i sure don’t know if it.