"Yet only last week a woman of color, Adria Richards, was publicly fired from her job at technology company SendGrid, following a massive online campaign of rape and death threats, racial slurs, and computer hacking. Her crime? Tweeting a picture of the two men making sexual jokes behind her at a computer conference. (Shortly thereafter, one of the men was fired by his employer, who hinted at multiple contributing factors beyond the jokes.)"
For anybody not familiar with the story, this reads:
0) Men make sexual jokes 1) Adria tweets 2) Massive online campaign against Adria 3) Adria is fired 4) One engineer is fired
In any case, it does not make the explicit connection that people were upset because Adria tweeted and that tweet caused the engineer to be fired. And that Adria did not let the engineer the chance to apologize, or PyCon to correct privately the issue, or, or, or ...
Without getting into details of freedom or expression and other related issues.
The article is also using the skin-color card to make this issue even more political: not only a woman, but a woman of color was fired! (as if she was not employed beforehand). Mean engineers!