[mightykan]

I honestly wonder how people here would react if a blog posts like this came out about a company that hasn’t necessarily been in the news for this many past bad behavior. Would we still condemn that company or would we blame the victim, as is the case usually?

[ivraatiems]

We've seen that with Github[1]. The debate on HN was much more lively and less one-sided[2], in that there were many more people trying to excuse what Github was doing or bring into question Horvath's story. Whether that's a good thing or not...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describe... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408055