newsweek:

marco:

Did you really need to publicly shame the poor guy with his full name and photo?

Don’t you think he feels bad enough already?

Did that really add anything to the story?

You just took a dark time in this man’s life — caused only by his negligence, not malice — and made it much worse. For what reason? Did you make anyone’s lives better by having done that?


Agreed. This poor guy’s got enough problems. Especially since there’s no larger purpose served in revealing this—it’s a product leak, not the Pentagon Papers.

This was total crap. Seriously. For all we know, the kid was a perfect employee. Giz just took a moment of weakness (it’s easy at the bar) and publicly shamed him over it. Shenanigans!