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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by brianpgordon on Friday April 26, 2019 @08:59PM (#19763068)
Slightly inaccurate? The headline is grossly incorrect. Beheading a 16-year-old is materially different from beheading a 21-year-old. The appalling possibility of a kid being executed is what made me click on the story in the first place.

And now my comment calling out the OP for creating a misleading headline is at -4 points. If HN is going to be a Facebook-like shithole of clickbait now, that's fine, but in that case I would appreciate it if someone could send me a lobste.rs invite so that I can keep ahead of the expanding event horizon of stupidity.

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by ceejayoz on Friday April 26, 2019 @09:19PM (#19763129)
The headline is slightly inaccurate, but the point remains the same.

It's a travesty that someone's being beheaded for non-violent actions they performed as a child.

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by ShorsHammer on Friday April 26, 2019 @09:27PM (#19763166)
> my comment calling out the OP for creating a misleading headline is at -4 points

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

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Re:Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about prote... by addicted on Friday April 26, 2019 @11:16PM (#19763549)
The headline is inaccurate.

The correct headline would be “16 year old child tortured and made to confess to sending WhatsApp texts, and then beheaded 5 years later for confessing to sending WhatsApp texts as a child while being tortured. Also, 16 year old was tortured”.

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