Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship

This is a story that FBI agents and Facebook censors might want to read carefully before starting another day at the office. The question they should ask themselves are why the top brass is suddenly distancing themselves from the hard work done by lower level operatives. Who exactly are they going to hang when the sinking ship goes down?

Censorship is a slippery tool. Like a snake, it has a tendency to turn around and bite its operator. History is full of examples of this. Censors may have a few good years, but tend to end up miserable and despised. Some may even find themselves pointed to by their own bosses. It's rarely the top brass that end up swinging.

When the CEO of Facebook decides to spill the beans, he's setting himself up as a target to those he's betraying. However, the man is no idiot. He must have calculated that this is the smarter move. For all the dangers he's now risking, keeping his mouth shut would have been more dangerous.

Similarly, it's interesting to see how the top brass in FBI wastes no time pointing fingers at their subordinates. This isn't the behaviour of people in control of a situation. This is the behaviour of rats leaving a sinking ship, and only idiots stay on board when the captain is looking for a seat in the life boats.

By Facebook, Inc. - http://en.facebookbrand.com, Public Domain, Link