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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by dexa_scantron@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

Laws mean nothing anymore. Therefore licenses mean nothing. Therefore ownership means nothing, and "theft" no longer exists.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

Therefore ownership means nothing, and “theft” no longer exists.

WOAH WOAH WOAH... hold on there Circuitfarmer (checks clipboard) It says here you're not nearly affluent enough to circumvent the law... we'll be keeping a close eye on you... --BB

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Jfc y'all sound like magats

There is no law forcing a company to spread your message for you.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is when Stack is using a creative commons license.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

No there isn't.

Stack Overflow is privately owned by Prosus. You have certain limited rights to the content they host but they do not have the obligation to keep the content up and they even have user terms that every account agrees to: especially for moderation.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If they'd just removed his content outright, I would agree with you. But if they've left his content up without attribution, that does violate the CC agreement, of which they are upheld by.

I mean, it's still a small copyright violation whom the proprietor of is a bit preoccupied to do anything about, so uh...this whole thing is quite dumb.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Idk if usernames count as "attribution", even, but I assume the results would be the same if an account was named Jeremy Assface, Ted Bundy, or Adolf Hitler even if the user's actual name was such. Not to compare Luigi to any of those people, no, but the point is usernames are moderated.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

usernames are the only form of attribution that makes sense and has ever been used (aside from email, which is again practically a username)

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

They agreed to terms when they operated under Creative Commons.