Balaji’s parents have questioned the circumstances of their son’s death and refuse to believe that he died by suicide, as ruled by the office of the chief medical examiner.
They have demanded an FBI investigation into his death. The demand, Ramarao said, stems from their belief that the San Francisco police department lacks the ability to conduct a thorough investigation into a case that includes issues such as cybersecurity and whistleblower protection.
Police found Balaji dead in his apartment on 26 November after Ramarao had failed to get in touch with her son for three days. She filed a missing person complaint where she lives in Union City, about 40 miles from San Francisco. Police there contacted San Francisco authorities.
Ramarao said it took the medical examiner 40 seconds from the time they arrived at the scene to declare it a suicide.
the San Francisco police department lacks the ability to conduct a thorough investigation into a case that includes issues such as cybersecurity and whistleblower protection.
As well as the ability to be objective when it comes to Silicon Valley billionaires, I bet.
That’s who they ACTUALLY work for, after all.
You can know a lot
you can know a little
but whatever you know
just don’t blow the whistleIn the handful of first person whistleblowing stories that have been reported, the whistleblower has always mentioned how hard their and their family’s lives became as a result and how close they came to suicide.
Anyone who chooses to whistleblow has the biggest balls among us and deserve our utmost respect. Now if only law enforcement weren’t working on behalf of the owner class…
Better investigate it quick. In a few weeks, it’ll be a whole different FBI, one much more friendly to big tech companies.
I imagine the current one isn’t filled with workers’ champions either.
I hate OpenAI but this just seems like parents unable to process their grief.
I’ve seen how hard suicide is for parents to process and how much they blame themselves. Another option, one that doesn’t lead to the painful and repetitive soul searching, would be hard to ignore.
