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U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan

(www.reuters.com)
350 points tepidandroid | 1 comments | 19 Sep 19 16:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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zxcvbn4038 ◴[20 Sep 19 09:44 UTC] No.21024866[source]▶
Notice the wording - the drone targeted the workers. The drone didn’t make a decision and target the workers, the drone pilot targeted the workers, and whomever was standing behind them gave the order to launch the missle. The whole “I’m just doing what the computer said” defense only works in movies.
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1. danbruc ◴[20 Sep 19 11:07 UTC] No.21025279[source]▶
The only sentence that says »[...] a drone targeted [the workers] [...]« is a quote from a tribal elder. I think the wording in the article is actually pretty good and Reuters has, as far as I know, pretty high standards for their wording in general, for example they never call someone a terrorist.