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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by dexa_scantron@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

Right now, on Stack Overflow, Luigi Magione’s account has been renamed. Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”.

This appears to violate the creative commons license under which Stack Overflow content is posted.

When the author asked about this:

As of yet, Stack Exchange has not replied to the above post, but they did promptly and within hours gave me a year-long ban for merely raising the question. Of course, they did draft a letter which credited the action to other events that occurred weeks before where I merely upvoted contributions from Luigi and bountied a few of his questions.

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

user4616250 will now be a famous meme. "How do we fix healthcare? We call user4616250."

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Do not forget me user4616250

Look down, look down You'll always be a slave Look down, look down You're standing in your grave

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

A musician needs to write a catchy tune to put the name to so people will remember the numbers.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Headquarters seems to be:

70 White Lion Street, London, England, N1 9PP

To send all your angry letters too.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Make sure to include bullet points

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 11 months ago

Stack Overflow has been toxic for a long time already. It's one of the things that a lot of people seem pleased to see AI devour.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What can Stack Overflow's motivation possibly be to strip Luigi's account? Are their private equity owners in cahoots with health insurance executives?

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A connection I may be inventing comes to mind: all the CEOs making million dollar donations to the new administration in the US.

Basically, show you’re on the side of “law and order” and hope you’re not caught up in any purges.

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Preemptive compliance.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's pretty standard when a highly-publicized murder suspect's online profiles are discovered. Platform admins will typically disable/hide their accounts from the public while investigations/trials are ongoing. This is hardly unique to Luigi.

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Do you have other examples? Because the article gave an example of a similar account that was not anonynized like this. Sure, accounts are often taken down, but the content isn't left up.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Source: your ass

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I cross posted this to Hacker News (which is very pro-CEO and big corpo) and it's now rank 1 on the front page, lmao. People really support this guy

(And it's funny because in the comments, people are seething "Nooooo he's not popular, look at these polls that show he has 13% approval!!")

(Not sharing link to avoid brigade)

[–] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The submission has been clearly penalized by hn moderators: Posted 3h ago, upvoted >600 times with almost 500 comments, ranking 23rd on the front page. Ranking first currently is a submission with 80 upvotes, posted 1h ago.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Wow, they also changed the title lmao. I posted it with the same title as the article

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] timlyo@kbin.earth 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hacker News. it's a link aggregator website and forum at news.ycombinator.com

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Even if the 13% number were accurate - that's a pretty damning number. 13% of people supporting someone for gunning down a CEO in cold blood is terrifying to CEOs.

That's not 13% hating them. That's 13% of people celebrating someone for killing them. No lawsuits. No trials. Just gunning them down in the streets. Things have gotten really bad when you have that much of the population actively supporting your murder.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

"Look at our corporate polls! Stop liking him!"

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Reducing someone to a number has never backfired in a revolutionary way. Just ask prisoner 24601

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On Stack Exchange, all of the contributions on the site are contributed under a license maintained by a third party called Creative Commons [...] the work remains properly attributed.

This is the main issue IMO

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I edited the post to call that out specifically

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

That's fucking bullshit.

Censorship needs to die.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

By this logic, everyone charged (not convicted, just charged) should have their accounts and submissions changed in the same manner as Luigi's.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

They're scared of Luigi still, got it

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Stopped using stack overflow ages ago because of how many assholes there are there.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Apropos of nothing, this was an article about substance from a year ago:

Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis

Fuck substack.

Shit, this article is about stack overflow, not substack. Too early, but still fuck substack.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

"Censorship forced me to flee a pro-nazi site to another pro-nazi site," is a contradiction worth noting. It highlights the general pro-nazi vibe going around big tech.