I hope one day we get to see real names in this story.

> to protect the privacy of the people and companies involved

Companies get privacy rights now?

Snark aside, I think I understand how this person feels.

I once worked for a company that did something abhorrent during a natural disaster. I spoke up and was reprimanded, while my coworkers just sat there and accepted it. I came very close to losing my job, and ended up leaving the company at my first opportunity.

It was 20 years ago, and I keep meaning to write an article about it, but never do. It's not that you want to protect the company, or that you're afraid of being sued. But there's something that weighs on you when you think about actually putting the words down.

It's all a decade or more old, so what's the point? Nobody will be held to account. The company is no longer under the same leadership (or even the same name).

My personal blog has a dead-man's switch that will reveal a number of ugly things about several of the companies for which I've worked. But who cares? That's part of the weight. What good will it do? If, by some remote chance, someone reads it, it will only make them mad. How does that help anything?

But I'm also one of those people on HN who's always crying "name and shame." So, I'm a hypocrite. Such is life.