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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

You don't want to go to Pornhub then

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 0 points 2 weeks 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 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Make sure to include bullet points

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[–] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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[–] BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] digger@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

His name was Luigi Mangione.

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 2 weeks 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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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 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 0 points 2 weeks 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.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you got me; because i don't like swooning over rich privileged people i'm defending ceos... /rolleyes

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm going to guess that you don't understand exactly what you're doing. So let me put it into a different context.

During the last major civil rights movement, the black community coined term "black lives matter". To combat and drown out that message, conservatives created their own message, "all lives matter". It was effective in the sense that it drummed up rage against conservative so much that the message of "Black Lives Matter" lost its volume and couldn't be heard.

What you're effectively doing, is pulling an "all lives matter". you're (unwilling or not) muddying the message that the elite and rich are abusing the system to take advantage of the people.

The mechanics of this message you're supporting attempt to draw more attention to Luigi's socioeconomic background over the actions he took. The actions he took being, the assassination of a CEO who has killed thousands, if not more, of American citizens based on the executive actions he took to increase profits over human life. Not only that, but he also supported unfair and inhumane treatment towards patients.

Fortunately, the message you're unwittingly spreading is weaker than the real message behind the actions that Luigi took.

BTW, because I'll probably get banned for posting his message here, I'll share the article that has it. just in case you're confused about why he did what he did.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

comparing luigi to the civil rights movement and black civil rights leaders is wild........ and grossly offensive.

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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 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.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There’s plenty of leftists, too. But the leftists threaten capital, and fascists don’t, so only one is being targeted/censored.

[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Corporate fascists need the muscle that the stormtroopers can provide in exchange for the loot they pillage.

That’s what we are seeing with the last 10-15 years resurgence of the alt-rights grift.

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