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Musk threatens to fire federal employees who leak information during DOGE purge

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Musk Threatens to Fire Federal Employees Who Leak Information During DOGE Purge

Summary

Elon Musk warned federal employees against leaking information, stating, “if in doubt, they are out,” as he helps Trump implement sweeping government changes.

A Reddit post alleged Musk’s team is using “fingerprinting” tactics to track leakers. Musk, who spent heavily on Trump’s re-election, now leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has controversially seized control of federal payment and personnel systems.

The administration is also encouraging civil servants to resign, prompting lawsuits.

Whistleblower protections may challenge Musk’s crackdown on leaks.

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now leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has controversially seized control of federal payment and personnel systems.
Why the fuck do they still write like this? DOGE isn't a department of the government, it's just Elon with a Carte Blanche. And there's nothing controversial about this, it's a coup in plain sight.
- It actually is. They took a Obama-era department and rebranded it
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_DOGE_Service
  Which means it's full expanded name is "United States Department of Government Efficiency Service". Which is super efficient, isn't it?
  
  The name may have already existed. But what Elon is doing in its name isn't what a governmental department does.
  
  And DOGE is pretty much the mirror of RAGE (Remove All Government Employees), which a pretty infamous techbro came up with.
- It also bugs me how the O is stylized as a capital. In acronyms, isn't it proper to make it lowercase if it's a filler word like "of"?
  And should he know this as an elite PoE (path of exile) player?
  
  Don't you know why he did this in the first place?
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin#Elon_Musk_and_Dogecoin
  
  Depends, AOA is angle of attack. I'm sure there are more examples if I sit and think. The lowercase 'o' strikes me as more of a tech/internet thing, not traditional.
- And wasn't it originally going to have him and Ramaswamy or however the fuck you spell it as co-heads? Like, the top position was redundant out of the gate, and we're supposed to take its idea of "efficiency" seriously?
  
  No, you're supposed to wonder what exactly its purpose is, who leads it, on what legal basis, and what the limits of its power are.
  While 20-something year old unelected goons who won't say their names dismantle the government in a week.
Attention all federal employees! Chances are you’re gonna get your ass fired anyway, so malicious compliance is the watchword from now on. Leak, document, obfuscate, lie, confuse, sidetrack and goosechase them every chance you get.
Remember Hannah Arendt: evil is when every bureaucrat ‘just does their job’ because a higher power gave the order.
You’re the frontline of this fight now. Even if you never signed up for this. Because none of you did.
How exactly is elon who has no position in teh government firing people?
- He has an entire department that was created specifically for him to do shit like this.
  
  It was created off the books. He technically has no authority, so I dont k ow why anybody is listening to anything he says. This is plainly illegal, and congress should be taking action right now. Instead we are sitting on our thumbs watching from the side lines.
  
  He has an entire department
  He has four people that dont have college degrees, the oldest is 24 and at least one is a teenager
  Their actual names and contact info are floating around. But mainstream news isn't reporting it
  
  I mean that would suggest he has a federal appointment then. I mean he was given authority as head of this department??? Because I have not heard his title or anything for a government position.
This dipshit has no authority! What the actual fuck is happening?
- We are looking at a coup, they already have judicial power, order forces, and when they get most departments and branches, they will take the legislative power. I give it less than a month, they will start persecuting members of Congress that oppose the current regime.
  
  I give it less than a month, they will start persecuting members of Congress that oppose the current regime.
  It's already happening at the state level. Tennessee is passing a law that would make it illegal for state legislature to vote against a bill that aligns with federal policy.
  https://www.newsweek.com/tennessee-bill-would-prohibit-voting-against-trump-immigration-policies-2023749
- What is happening is that they don't care about the law.
  Also what is happening is people still seem to be surprised by that.
- A government that was more intent on ruling than governing, has been doing all it can to muddy the waters on constitutional interpretation, finally hit a tipping point.
- Americans voted for this (or didn't bother to vote to avoid it)
Musk threatens to illegally fire employees he is already illegally firing.
For any dedicated centrists, or even Trump Voters who are starting to feel this increasingly itchy feeling in the back of your mind, like there is a question you want to ask but your brain kind of shies away from putting it into words, let me help you out:
Yes, you are the baddies. Yes, it is only going to get more uncomfortable from here on out. If you haven't walked away after reading this comment, you are now choosing the side you know is wrong. On purpose. That is now your identity.
So he wants them to quit but if they leak anything he’ll fire them? His mind is an enigma
- I hope people just say fuck it and leak everything
  
  A lot of that is happening. But you've still got to leak to a source. After the way Snowden and Assange were handled, and the degree to which the bigger journals and news channels have been compromised by conservative financial interests, there's a big open question of who you even tell this stuff to.
  Going to another Glenn Greenwald or Matt Taibbi would be a huge mistake.
Whistleblower protections may challenge Musk's crackdown on leaks.
Lmfao. How, exactly, are whistleblower protections going to do shit ?
Know what Nazis and the USSR did to "whistleblowers"? They killed them. Just a matter of time before these people who are leaking the information and slowing things down get shot for "refusing to vacate the premise" after being fired.
- Like the Boeing whistle-blowers?
He's gonna fire you anyway, leak harder.
- Seriously they're going to fire just about everyone. It's not much of a threat.
Mulk: "I'm going to fire you if you leak anything about me firing all of you."
Staff: "I mean... yes...?"
What if the workers leak information that Elon is an agent of China?
- Orr worse, what if he's secretly DEI and woke? Smells like a foreigner with ties to hostile nations to me
- You know what would really bring the conservative movement to its knees? Saying Trump is an agent of the Russian government. Then make a big picture of him and Putin kissing.
  Absolutely guaranteed to work. There's nothing America can't fix by doubling down on Red Scare.
  
  He may just be a useful idiot, but he's doing exactly what Putin wants.
  
  It won't work. AI exists now, they will just say its fake.
You cannot leak information! I'm the one who leaks information! -fElon
- Space Karen disliked that.
This man needs to be tried for treason, convicted, and hanged for his crimes against the republic.
Fuck that south African shitsnake
We can't let them complete the Network State takeover. This is hostile to democracy. We will not survive this.
- Why are you using their made up name for it?
  Network State = fascism
  
  Its corporate fascist states
  https://balajis.com/p/the-network-state-2021
It's literally the same thing he did with twitter
The difference is federal unions
- if the unions decide to do something... so far they have just been docile like lambs
  
  I think the confusion is you only hear about what federal unions are doing from the media, and you have no experience working with the federal government and don't understand the process.
If you tell on me I'LL FIRE YOU! also, here's your pink slip, we're going a different direction, goodbye.
"Rim me, Elon."
If there are any undercover operatives in my organization disrupting my efforts, I would simply find them and remove them. It is very easy to do because I have so much information and I am so much smarter than everyone else.

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