Indeed. A very(unintentionally) misleading title. Perhaps unfortunately, the policy here is to keep the original title of an article... That policy has many upsides, but one of its biggest downsides is that there is no discretion allowed in fixing possibly confusing titles like this one.
This has been provided as a nice solution multiple times. I thought the consensus was that this would be a good idea. It also ensures the post is not seen as sensation headline trolling and gets downvoted or something.
The last discussion in this regard also happened after the submission of a "Silk Road Asia" article with a beautiful site from CNN or BBC (?) I'm searching but can't find it yet.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 43.4 ms ] threadpg said recently that the reason they revert titles is to avoid false information:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466
A tiny change like this does not seem to include false information -- on the contrary, it unambiguously and imparcially clarifies it.
If so, it's a clever one.
However, it does seem that someone has now changed the title to avoid confusion (would have thought it would happen much earlier).
There's yet another silk road, in the recruiting space, http://www.silkroad.com/
I bet these guys are loving the extra attention.