If you can't piece together, from the very lengthy narrative in here including in messages you are directly responding to, why I think what Will did was wrong then you are beyond my power to help understand.

I don't think Will is a bad person (or I hope not), but I do think this specific choice was a bad one. It helped no one and hurt many. It was a needless throwing of oil onto a fire that made an awful situation worse for the innocent people involved, including the companies staff who could have lost their jobs, and still might depending on how this impacts the company financially. Given all that, why make this public, when you could choose not to?

What Ned and Alex did was cruel, wrong, and risked all of that as well, except despite their hubris they miraculously didn't manage to get caught publically by anyone except the friend who contacted Will and Ariel with the videos. If anyone else had concrete evidence and they felt good about cashing in on it then we'd have seen it by now. So yeh, sadly, Will is the reason this was made public, and verifiable (and therefore lasting in the public consciousness), and as I previously stated I feel that creates more harm for the victims than good so thus was a poor choice.

If you think I'm defending Ned or Alex or exempting them, at all, from blame then you have just straight up not been reading anything I'm saying, or willfully ignoring it. What they did was inexcusable, they are overhwelmingly responsible for this entire trauma taking place, and I've said that over and over and over again.

You are the second person to accuse me of being Ned which... I feel like I should respond seriously to since it's quite clear you're legitimately angry, but... I just find it so genuinely hilarious that I can't muster up a serious response. I am, to a comical degree, nearly the exact opposite of him in every way; from race, nationality, and gender to having never cheated on a partner. Sorry to disappoint, but thanks for giving me a laugh.

Also not a Ned superfan, fwiw: He wasn't my favourite to begin with with (I find him almost totally unrelatable), and the way he commodified his kids was reprehensible to me.