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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

[–] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

"calling user 461-62-50, he's our dude, what he does is nifty!" :)

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

♪ 0118 999 88199 9119 725 ...3

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Anytime a CEO does something questionable; "/ping user4616250"

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

Make sure to include bullet points

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Bullet points work best when using a 9mm font size.

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 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 5 points 1 year 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 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] Whateley@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hackers

Pro CEO and Pro Corporate

What fuckery is this?

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Live too long and become a villain

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[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're scared of Luigi still, got it

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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (4 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 2 points 1 year 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 3 points 1 year ago

Preemptive compliance.

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (8 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 1 year 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

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year 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 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I edited the post to call that out specifically

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago (6 children)

"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.

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Here's a fun fact I just recently came across. In the medieval times when the church wanted to remove a heretic, someone who was speaking out in opposition to church doctrine, they would burn those people at the stake. The reason they would do this was not because this was a common practice to burn people at the stake but in order to prevent relics of the heretics from being collected and giving their followers something to rally around.

I think Luigi's Stack Overflow history is a relic of his existence and something people could rally around and the powerful don't want that to exist.

[–] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

“Trickle down economics only occurs when the wealthy bleed.”

Similar, and appropriate. The working class will only benefit once the wealthy are no longer wealthy.

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