On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, George Herbert wrote:
I think we do need to have and protect people willing to whistleblow on actual malfeasance should it happen. But that's not even remotely what happened here. The only goal served by Giano's actions was drama and disruption.
Giano posting the message served the goal of exposing a systematic problem.
Certainly exposing problems that people would rather not have exposed can cause drama and disruption, but as I've pointed out, that's the fault of the person whose bad behavior is being exposed, not the fault of the person doing the exposing.