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It's unfortunate that the title leads with the "backlash" from the thing that happened, not the thing itself ("Kaggle disqualifies participants over usage of ex
by UweSchmidt 6y ago
It's unfortunate that the title leads with the "backlash" from the thing that happened, not the thing itself ("Kaggle disqualifies participants over usage of external data usage"). This suggests that the decision about the case has already been made by a plurality and with fervor. In reality this article is the first time many HN readers learn about this for the first time.
While I'm sure it's just accidental in this case, I see this all over the news and suspect attempts to steer public opinion by condemning people or institions in the headline, before the news is actually reported on. A forum of independent thinkers should insist on not having the news presented to them in a potentially manipulative manner.
- RMPR 6y agoI feel the same, and it was the right move imho because if they didn't disqualified the winners, another header could have been "Facebook, Kaggle rewarding unauthorized use of people data"
- pulse7 6y agoWe are in the Zeitgeist of "...all over the news and suspect attempts to steer public opinion"... One of the reasons is newspapers fighting for survival (and therefore prioritizing "what people like to hear" to boost ad-clicks over "what people should know"). There are also other reasons like newspaper editors favoring one political party other the other - and therefore they publish mostly negative news about one party and mostly positive news about the other one...