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This was already discussed on HN. I found really troubling how the whole thing just evaporated. Shit-storm around Brendan Eich who did much less, started around the same time, and lasted for months.

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Another commenter claims Chahal has secured the services of a PR firm which specializes in taking down stories like this, to keep then from spreading. Maybe it works sometimes.

That controversy had two sides, both of which were happy to bring it up in the comments of only vaguely related articles (which your comment might be counted as part of).

Whereas in this case everyone agrees which side is behaving like a scumbag so there's less inherent drama.

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