I think they've seen people "get wierd with it" online and have just overrcorrected a bit. Remember that Hexbearians are, somehow, comparitively normal people compared to most Extremely Online types. And Matt's acid rants skew to a wierd audience.

They've seen a lot of stalkers etc, they know they'll get a flurry of morbid speculation, and the last thing they want is for some wierdo to show up at Matt's hospital room or start camping his house.

Also they are distraught over their friend. They have to read prepared statements and...well it seemed heavily edited. His wife must be in hell right now, about to have a child! You'd be an asshole too under that type of stress!

Heck most of us here can't talk about bees without a vicious struggle session. So I think they're handling it ok considering and we should cut them some slack.