This article, as far as I can tell, does not contain any new information about the EJ saga. I am quite confident that, had the subject matter of the submission

This article, as far as I can tell, does not contain any new information about the EJ saga. I am quite confident that, had the subject matter of the submission not been AirBnB (and thus killing it might give rise to accusations of censorship on part of YC), this submission would have been killed as a dupe, and rightly so. What is the point of submitting the same story over and over again, albeit from different news sources? The fact that it has 98 points at the moment is proof that the angry mob PG was talking about¹ is a reality. It's sad to see this kind of behavior on HN. ¹ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822860 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822860