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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
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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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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago (5 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 70 points 1 day 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.

[–] SolaceFiend@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I'm starring this cause I want to look into this myself, and if I find any technical sources that address this claim and actually detail this as a SOP, I'll reply with that source later, or otherwise reply with "I didn't find anything."

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How would this apply to the fediverse

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

It probably wouldn't, because it's unlikely anyone is going to do the work, especially since there are a lot of jurisdictions involved. That's a lot of work for a relatively small userbase.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

It would depend on the software in use, but i think the instance admin could probably delete the account. About renaming... maybe, fiddling with the database. Again, depends on the software (and admin).

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

Source: your ass