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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 minutes ago

Assigning to a number like they do prisoners.

Disgusting behaviour from Stack Overflow and the perpetrators.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 minutes 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.

[–] caboose2006@lemm.ee 1 points 2 minutes ago

He's closer to you in class and status than Brian Thompson ever was. How fine a comb do you want to use to divide us? Where's the line?

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 2 hours 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 10 points 1 hour 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 1 points 3 minutes ago

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.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

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

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[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 70 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 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 93 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 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 44 points 6 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 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 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 20 points 4 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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