I hope it's not too off-topic to say that I thought someone sent a TheOnion article to HN.
It made me wonder if there were any theonion articles on hn. It turns out, there were a couple of them that even received comments and upvotes, but not much for the last 3 years. My guess is that submissions from theonion are auto-banned.
That is kinda sad, actually. Many articles on The Onion are more intellectually stimulating than stuff on HN front page.
I think that's my issue with the entire story. It's over-sensationalist.
Of course, I have to believe that, or risk losing faith in humanity altogether.
At least TF coverage seems to be fairly faithful to original information spread over Facebook in Finnish. Of course it's harder to know for sure what the actual facts are behind this.
I thought the same thing. Although it is unsettling to see how copyright infringement is turning into witch hunts this was still probably the funniest thing I've read all day.