When they're talking about "digging up dirt" I don't see how that's going to apply to children. Context is important, and reducing it to 'threat' is misleading. Even though yes it is a subtype of threat.

Really? You don't know anyone who has a special-needs child? The public at large can be very unkind to any who aren't "normal". And that's leaving alone those disturbed individuals who just like to "break things" and are just looking for a target.

Even simply exposing that information is a threat, possibly causing a chilling effect - which is exactly what this Uber exec wants.

Knowing that a child exists with special needs doesn't hurt the child...

>disturbed individuals [...] looking for a target

What??? Where did you get here from "digging up dirt". (For one, you don't need dirt to post someone's name on /b/ or whatever you have in mind.) The level of hyperbole on this submission is awful and pains me to read.

plus it's much more fun to get all spun up about the most uncharitable interpretation possible. it works for Internet fights, relationship fights, street fights... an amazingly versatile technique for disrupting harmony.

There were no threats. Stop making stuff up.

The comments were about "digging up dirt". Sleazy as that is, it doesn't even require personal contact.