The other thing is that it's extremely obvious that the tech press doesn't hold their own to the same standards. For instance, there's this one Ars Technica journalist who'd been posting pro-pedophilia comments on their own forums and creeping their regulars out for years. They were quite happy to keep him on until he was arrested in an FBI sting for allegedly attempting to meet up to molest a 7 year old: https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/peter-bright-charged-solicit... Even after his arrest, this didn't get a huge amount of press coverage.