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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 175 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 101 points 1 day ago

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 14 points 19 hours ago

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

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[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 18 hours ago

Lmao it has 3x as many votes as anything else on HN but the moderated pushed it all the way down to page 3 (position 60-something when I just checked).

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours 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.

[-] FolknForage@lemm.ee 15 points 19 hours ago

If billionaires were protected as we protect children in schools, we’d literally run out billionaires in a month.

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[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 16 points 22 hours ago

Wait, seriously? WTF is it named hacker news? Hackers are the least corporate people out there...

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[-] beefbot 37 points 23 hours ago

Jean Valjean was labelled prisoner number 24601, apropos of nothing

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 141 points 1 day ago

They're scared of Luigi still, got it

[-] Whateley@lemm.ee 7 points 18 hours ago

Fucking terrified. I've never seen corpos circle their wagons like this before. It's hilarious.

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's not what the article is about. Stack Overflow has kept content that Luigi created up, but removed his username, in violation of Creative Commons. Edited the post to make that more clear.

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[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 127 points 1 day ago

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

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[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 185 points 1 day 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.

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[-] Nougat@fedia.io 192 points 1 day ago
[-] Gork@lemm.ee 151 points 1 day ago

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 140 points 1 day ago

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.

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[-] BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

His name was Robert Paulson. His name was Luigi Mangione.

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[-] cupcakezealot 3 points 16 hours ago

i have no love for brian thompson or ceos but the canonisation of a well off wealthy rich kid from a family of republicans is a bit disturbing.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

this who you're defending when you attack Luigi's character.

just making sure you're getting the whole picture in view for everyone to see.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/slain-healthcare-ceos-life-airbrushed

Screenshot_20241220-210643_Firefox

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