Comment Re:Rumors are not news. (Score 1) 491
"Plus it's not like Sony hasn't done anything like this before"
That's not a reason to be able to accuse someone of something. You can't publish in the newspaper that Bob stole a car because you heard it at the bar and besides, he got caught stealing a car before, Thats not how news works. And unless Slashdot announces that they're no longer 'news for nerds' and have switched to 'TMZ for techies', they should be more vigilant about what goes on the site. At the very least put that it's a Rumor in the headline instead of the sensationalist one that's there now.
And the source is an IRC conversation. I thought using Twitter as a source was bad, but IRC?
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