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Terrible title to this thread. It's a court order to specifically remove tweets that falsely compare protests to genocide. The HN thread title "Indian governme

Terrible title to this thread. It's a court order to specifically remove tweets that falsely compare protests to genocide. The HN thread title "Indian government orders Twitter to remove contents related to farmers protest" suggests it is an Indian government order to remove all content regarding the protests. Dishonest.

maurys 6y ago
My personal opinions on the protests aside, this is clearly a different title from the original article. And it's deliberately titled to make it sound worse than it is (at the moment at least). I'm not sure how one requests a title change on HN, but that would help here.
jariel 6y ago
Not quite the offending hashtag is: "#ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide" So this is the government tamping down language which they deem destructive to them, particularly, one individual i.e. Modi. It remains to be seen if 'genocide' used in any other context would elicit a take-down order.
- perryizgr8 6y ago
  > So this is the government tamping down language which they deem destructive to them, particularly, one individual i.e. Modi. But it's not the government "ordering" anything, it's the court. That's the inaccuracy. Court is totally separate from the government.
  - webmobdev 6y ago
    It is the government that has requested the court to act: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Sunday had sought "emergency blocking of 257 URLs and 1 Hashtag under section 69 A of the Information Technology Act," as per an official statement,
    - perryizgr8 6y ago
      You're right, I don't know why I thought this was a court order.
hunter-2 6y ago
At the time of my posting, the title on this article read something along the lines of "Government asks Twitter to comply with orders to remove content/accounts related to farmers protests" I added 'Indian' to provide context. And had to remove words to comply with HN's character count rule. You can see what the original title was in the slug: government-notice-asks-twitter-to-comply-with-order-to-remove-contents-accounts-related-to-hashtags-linked-to-farmers-protest-2362377
- maurys 6y ago
  I was wondering (and hoping), it's just a case of the title changing on the media site. The original title definitely sounds more inflammatory than the one they changed it to later. Thanks for clarifying!
- Abhinav2000 6y ago
  No, the key word here is comply. Which you do not have in your title. Its very different to order twitter to remove something vs. ordering them to COMPLY to a court order I cannot believe nothing is being done about this and inflammatory and misleading titles are accepted on HackerNews.

maurys 6y ago

My personal opinions on the protests aside, this is clearly a different title from the original article. And it's deliberately titled to make it sound worse than it is (at the moment at least). I'm not sure how one requests a title change on HN, but that would help here.

jariel 6y ago

Not quite the offending hashtag is: "#ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide" So this is the government tamping down language which they deem destructive to them, particularly, one individual i.e. Modi. It remains to be seen if 'genocide' used in any other context would elicit a take-down order.

perryizgr8 6y ago
> So this is the government tamping down language which they deem destructive to them, particularly, one individual i.e. Modi. But it's not the government "ordering" anything, it's the court. That's the inaccuracy. Court is totally separate from the government.
- webmobdev 6y ago
  It is the government that has requested the court to act: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Sunday had sought "emergency blocking of 257 URLs and 1 Hashtag under section 69 A of the Information Technology Act," as per an official statement,
  - perryizgr8 6y ago
    You're right, I don't know why I thought this was a court order.

hunter-2 6y ago

At the time of my posting, the title on this article read something along the lines of "Government asks Twitter to comply with orders to remove content/accounts related to farmers protests" I added 'Indian' to provide context. And had to remove words to comply with HN's character count rule. You can see what the original title was in the slug: government-notice-asks-twitter-to-comply-with-order-to-remove-contents-accounts-related-to-hashtags-linked-to-farmers-protest-2362377

maurys 6y ago
I was wondering (and hoping), it's just a case of the title changing on the media site. The original title definitely sounds more inflammatory than the one they changed it to later. Thanks for clarifying!
Abhinav2000 6y ago
No, the key word here is comply. Which you do not have in your title. Its very different to order twitter to remove something vs. ordering them to COMPLY to a court order I cannot believe nothing is being done about this and inflammatory and misleading titles are accepted on HackerNews.