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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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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 158 points 1 day ago (11 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 147 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago

Kiss the ring.

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[–] BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] digger@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His name was Luigi Mangione.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Luigi’s contributions to Stack Overflow are the exact opposite of the mindless chant in that scene. Don’t degrade him with comparison to Bob.

[–] Whateley@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago

Luigi definitely didn't have bitch tits.

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