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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
 

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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[–] john89@lemmy.ca 112 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's fucking bullshit.

Censorship needs to die.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago

platforms like this are essentially private ownership of the commons

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 182 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 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)

[–] Whateley@lemm.ee 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Hackers

Pro CEO and Pro Corporate

What fuckery is this?

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[–] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 105 points 1 day ago (5 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 16 points 20 hours ago

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

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 16 points 20 hours ago

If billionaires were protected as we protect children in schools, we’d literally run out billionaires in a month.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 19 hours ago

Lmao it has 3x as many votes as anything else on HN but the moderated pushed it all the way down to page 3 (position 60-something when I just checked).

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[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Jean Valjean was labelled prisoner number 24601, apropos of nothing

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[–] 0x0@programming.dev 83 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Righteous censorship, got it.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 58 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Can’t have a “terrorist” demonstrating his competence and productivity after all.

The overlords know they’ve really fucked up when the competent, productive people start getting resentful and side-eyeing the system.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't worry everyone, the new President is going to rename the Gulf of Mexico and annex Greenland, so that will take care of it!

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 147 points 1 day ago (6 children)

They're scared of Luigi still, got it

[–] Whateley@lemm.ee 10 points 18 hours ago

Fucking terrified. I've never seen corpos circle their wagons like this before. It's hilarious.

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 111 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

That's not what the article is about. Stack Overflow has kept content that Luigi created up, but removed his username, in violation of Creative Commons. Edited the post to make that more clear.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 67 points 1 day ago (10 children)

If they weren't afraid of what he represents they wouldn't have removed his name.

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 134 points 1 day 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

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 206 points 1 day ago (12 children)
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