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What's up with the editorializing of the title? If you're going to post stuff that's on the edge of being too political for HN I think leaving the headline inta
by spacemanaki 14y ago
What's up with the editorializing of the title? If you're going to post stuff that's on the edge of being too political for HN I think leaving the headline intact is the best approach.
edit it's been fixed, but for reference the original title had something in it about "astroturfing in action"
- gee_totes 14y agoYeah I agree. For reference, 'astroturfing' is not what happened here. Astroturfing is when a large entity funds what looks like a grassroots, anti-establishment movement. Astroturfing is about orchestrating grassroots tactics to give the appearance of a genuine movement. None of that happened here. Instead what happend was someone posted and article to the internet, the internet got outraged, and someone else issued an apology. Same cycle that happens every day.