tl;dr: In this case, it is the people killing gays who are at fault for gays being killed.

I see three parts. Engaging in gay relationships, the hackers releasing data, and the people who do the stoning.

In the Manning/Snowden case, there are also three parts.

The US doing bad things, Manning/Snowden releasing it, and other governments reacting.

Now, in the Snowden/Manning case, media tries to place blame for 3 on 2 instead of 1, when blame should be placed on 1.

In this case, people seem to be placing blame for 3 on 2, when blame should be placed on 3 (unless you fully believe that gay relationships should end in death, in which case it should be placed on 1, but few people on HN believe that).

So there is a slight difference in that the blame should rest on the initial actor in the Snowden/Manning case while in this case the blame should be on the reacting actor (the ones killing people). But I think it is very similar in trying to blame the data release instead of the responsible party.