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When I read the headline, I immediately thought Xinjiang, because that is where they have the greatest concentration of Muslims and where they have had separati

When I read the headline, I immediately thought Xinjiang, because that is where they have the greatest concentration of Muslims and where they have had separatism issues. And then the first sentence starts with "China has ramped up surveillance measures in Xinjiang". So I don't consider the headline misleading at all. News sites necessarily have to use short titles. The lack of an exhaustive title shouldn't be criticized unless it is clearly clickbait or contradicts facts or the article.

logicchains 9y ago
I meant the headline of the Hacker News post, not the headline of the article. The original Hacker News post headline was "China forces its Muslim minority to install spyware on their phones", which is incorrect in the sense it implies that China is forcing all its Muslims to install spyway on their phones.
- libeclipse 9y ago
  That's the same as the headline on the article itself.
  - logicchains 9y ago
    The article headline is slightly different: it's: "China's forcing citizens in Muslim-majority region to install spyware on their phones" Note the "Muslim-majority region", which was missing from the original HN title.
    - em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
      Thanks for clearing up this mystery. Yeah, to me the original article headline was just fine. I think there is a bit of a problem when HN users change headlines when posting articles...cutting even a little bit can change the meaning significantly.
    - em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
      It seems that mashable changed their headline, because I get "China’s forcing citizens in Muslim-majority region to install spyware on their phones" when I visit what appears to be a cached crawler copy at http://www.pipiscrew.com/2017/07/chinas-forcing-citizens-in-muslim-majority-region-to-install-spyware-on-their-phones/ http://www.pipiscrew.com/2017/07/chinas-forcing-citizens-in-... but when I visit the article itself, I see a different headline.

logicchains 9y ago

I meant the headline of the Hacker News post, not the headline of the article. The original Hacker News post headline was "China forces its Muslim minority to install spyware on their phones", which is incorrect in the sense it implies that China is forcing all its Muslims to install spyway on their phones.

libeclipse 9y ago
That's the same as the headline on the article itself.
- logicchains 9y ago
  The article headline is slightly different: it's: "China's forcing citizens in Muslim-majority region to install spyware on their phones" Note the "Muslim-majority region", which was missing from the original HN title.
  - em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
    Thanks for clearing up this mystery. Yeah, to me the original article headline was just fine. I think there is a bit of a problem when HN users change headlines when posting articles...cutting even a little bit can change the meaning significantly.
  - em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
    It seems that mashable changed their headline, because I get "China’s forcing citizens in Muslim-majority region to install spyware on their phones" when I visit what appears to be a cached crawler copy at http://www.pipiscrew.com/2017/07/chinas-forcing-citizens-in-muslim-majority-region-to-install-spyware-on-their-phones/ http://www.pipiscrew.com/2017/07/chinas-forcing-citizens-in-... but when I visit the article itself, I see a different headline.