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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 29 points 4 hours ago

Stack being weird and toxic I'm shocked, shocked I tell you

[–] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 51 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 27 points 5 hours 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.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 32 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Assigning to a number like they do prisoners.

Disgusting behaviour from Stack Overflow and the perpetrators.

[–] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago

we are all numbers. lemmy.ca has a user number for you, your government has a number for you, your local library has a number for you.

that is just how a digital world works.

[–] yabai@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

He's user number 24601 as far as I'm concerned

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

694201337

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Gione Valgione

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

probably was the internal id number, but still scummy behaviour.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 80 points 8 hours ago (11 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 21 points 7 hours 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

[–] caboose2006@lemm.ee 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I managed to convince my brother in law by using the wrongful death case of Kanokporn Tangsuan as an example. Framed it as his moral responsibility to never sign up for any digital media ever again since he has a family. I pointed him to a few resources to sail the high seas and he's got his high seas pc hooked up to his TV and cancelled all his subscriptions. I'm so proud.

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[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

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[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 82 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

“No wars but class wars” as true today as when Trotsky said it many decades ago. Not sure how anyone cannot see this very, very clear fact, made self evident by the treatment of Luigi and the composition of the upcoming administration and its supporters.

But every other commoner that sees it needs to take according measures.

Culture is not our friend.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 100 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 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 47 points 12 hours 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.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 15 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The internet just isn’t fun anymore. Right wing bigots are stomping around and the best communities are all either crumbling or raising their bridges and filling their motes so AI can’t scrape them and these asshats can’t get in, killing the ability for new people to find them. And who can blame them? They want to protect their communities from very real threats.

The internet is Balkanizing and it’s to our collective detriment.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

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

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 56 points 12 hours ago (16 children)

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

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You don't want to go to Pornhub then

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 6 points 6 hours ago

You'd probably get better coding advice in the comments.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 5 hours ago

I got a decade old question closed as a duplicate.

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