Maybe I'm misunderstanding how grooming techniques work, but nothing about that chest looks waxed to me at all. It looks drawn on, heavily airbrushed, and it's all out of proportion.
Eh, giving out a downvote isn't a stressor, nor it's it necessarily personal. It's not even an indicator that the content should be removed, just that a user doesn't think it's helpful/fun/or contributing to the discussion
It's bare minimum feedback where blocking is not. And honestly, we should encourage more of it, rather than encourage people to create their echo chambers (within an already somewhat echo chambery platform)
If anything is personally stressful, it's stressing over an anonymous user's opinion that has very little context to it. Downvotes don't even hide or reduce visibility of your comments or posts in most of the sorting methods.
This is already a thing that happens currently. Some admins/moderators don't like being downvoted and ban people for "vote manipulation" because they vote on things in their feed.
It is leading to exactly that, where people are worried that using the voting system as intended will lead to exclusion from participation in some communities.
There are very few situations where a dead man's switch would have helped these whistleblowers.
Once they have gone public and are at risk of being "suicided" they should have already released everything they knew. Sitting on it after already going public in any way only helps if the goal is to blackmail or extort the company, rather than to expose the company or protect others.
A lot of people have latched onto the idea of a dead man's switch (and I get it, technical solutions are fun to create), but the only part of the scenario it would help is before the whistleblower goes public, while they are still gathering information and haven't yet been discovered by the company. Even then, it wouldn't protect them from being killed, it would only ensure that the partial work is released in case they were discovered and prevented from finishing it.
Leverage was/is a pretty ridiculous show sometimes (it's basically just Ocean's Five as a series), but I still enjoyed it far more than Dexter