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Since it's probably going to be changed soon, original submission's title: The UK just equated journalism and terrorism...



Should I change the title? I don't see how it violates any rules? It's not click-baiting either. Unfortunately it's quite a summary of what the article says ...


Yes, you should use the original title.

See "Why We Revert to Original Titles" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466)

The guidelines ask you to use the original title apart from some narrow exceptions, which this submission doesn't meet. (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

> Otherwise please use the original title

Your modified title is misleading and is link-baity.


The hackernews mods often change titles when they differ from the title of the page that it links to. I cited yours because I think it's good.


Thanks :-)


UK was asserting that Miranda was involved in espionage and terrorism, but you're asserting that it was journalism (carrying documents on behalf of Greenwald) and I don't think that's really accurate.


Well he was carrying documents meant for a journalist, that where to be published by a legit newspapers. Sounds like being a part in a journalistic process to me.

Sure the title maybe a bit edgy, but that it what it comes down to. That is the important (and very bad) message.


Exactly. To the extent that he wasn't involved in journalism, he also wasn't involved in the disclosure, or threat of disclosure...".

That is to say, if he wasn't participating in journalism, then how can it be said that he was disclosing, or threatening to disclose, anything?

They really did equate journalism with terrorism. The title, while editorialized, is not an exaggeration.


For some values of "they", not including (yet) the court where this document was read out, right?

Because at the moment that value of "they" includes (from the article) Scotland Yard, and (from outside the article) a few other similar organisations (maybe GCHQ, MI5, MI6, etc)

But certainly not "the UK". So the title, as well as being editorialized, is an exaggeration.

EDIT: But let's see what happens with the court case, I guess.


Pretty much any member of parliament introducing a non-trivial bill into the house for debate is a terrorist under this definition as well.


Actually the title is what Miranda says in the article about two thirds down.


I think that is actually a Greenwald quote:

'In an email to Reuters, Greenwald condemned the British government for labeling his partner's actions "terrorism."

"For all the lecturing it doles out to the world about press freedoms, the UK offers virtually none...They are absolutely and explicitly equating terrorism with journalism," he said.'




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