Can HN Talk about Eric Garnier?

I searched for "Eric Garnier" on HN, and got about 7 or so results, all of which had at most, 2 comments, I think. I'd have thought the Eric Garnier story is the kind that would be discussed exhaustively on HN, so I was fairly surprised to see, based on the search results, that it got so little attention. How come? Is it potentially ugly, the HN discussion that would ensue? Sure, but since when has HN ran away from controversy? It's the sort of thing that I'd expect to bring up, in the comments, a lot of interesting historical and philosophical bits and digressions and what nots. Can we talk?