How would you feel if this where about you? HN is usually better than this.
In general, they wouldn't be able to say that I had mistreated people serially over the course of years with no apology, made a long string of bigoted and degrading statements about a wide variety of marginalized groups, and generally made an asshole of myself in public with no apparent understanding of why it was bad and no apology for it.
I mean, what, did you think "how would you feel if they talked on Twitter about what you did at work" would result in similar stories for everyone?
2. RMS is a public figure by his own choice. This is not the same as your average HN commentor.
3. HN is definitely the place to discuss the public actions of organizations and people in tech
4. Please take the holier than thou, shaming attitude back to Reddit.