[dave_sullivan]

I upvoted you. I agree that a lynch-mob has formed around calling for Ortiz's blood. I'm not sure if this is good or bad.

It's bad for exactly the reasons you say.

It's good for the same reasons that they came down so harshly on Aaron--to make an example. The thing is, she represents the old guard--the old "I'm not good with computers but boy am I afraid of them" lobby. There is real money behind the internet now, and one of the perks of that is you get to demand representation and power. Just as Aaron made the mistake of getting into politics, so has Ortiz. Some examples need to be set that if the government expects us to bail them out in the future, they need to stop trying to put the best of us in jail.

[ytadesse]

Fair point but although it's tempting to go an eye-for-an-eye with Ortiz (and the federal government) after learning of Aaron's fate, I'm just not in a position to judge her actions. This is not my "holier than thou" moment, it's just that these situations are often far more complicated than a 500 word opinion piece on a blog.

[darkarmani]

Eye for an eye? No one is suggesting locking her up for 35 years. How is it a lynch mob when the worst that would happen is that she loses her job??

[mpyne]

Someone doxxed her right here on HN and suggested it would be a shame if people were to do something bad with that information. There's far worse than can happen as a result of this mob than losing her job.

[ytadesse]

"It's good for the same reasons that they came down so harshly on Aaron -- to make an example"

Making an example of someone in retribution for it happening to someone else is eye-for-an-eye.

[jlgreco]

No, it really is not. The two are wildly out of proportion.

You can simplify any crime imaginable and any punishment imaginable to declare the combination of the two "an eye for an eye", as you have just done here, does not make such a declaration legitimate.

[darkarmani]

Let's see if it matches up:

1. We need to make an example out of him and try to lock him up for 35 years.

2. We need to make an example out of her and get her fired.