no, really, no. This is exactly like blaming a woman who was raped because of how she dressed.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197796 and marked it off-topic.
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Your comment broke the site guidelines by taking an already-divisive topic in an even more inflammatory direction. There's no way that a rape-victim-blaming analogy (especially one casually tossed in, as you did) can possibly improve a discussion like this either in civility or substantiveness, which are the two things we care about.
I managed a political online forum for a couple years, and IMHO it's much more correct to just remove or detach the thread so that it's not visible in the original discussion. Just my two cents.
That's why we include the context by linking to it.
OK I get it now. Still don't find this system ideal, but at least I get it now.
Instead we're blaming the security cameras for revealing who robbed said bank because the bank robbers are our buddies.
Since the furor is over HRC's campaign being bought by wealthy interests and conspiring with the DNC to beat Bernie, outing her donors does serve the public interest, though I'd argue they probably should have blanked out the CC numbers. Then again I don't know what the context is - if they were freely emailing CC numbers that's gross negligence, and on the DNC.