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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

This is the equivalent of a bank robber standing in a vault, filling his bag full of jewels. One of the hostages yelling "You can't do this, it's illegal." Some other guy yells "...and yet..." minutes before police sirens can be heard outside.

I look forward to Mangiine catching wind of this, which is basically theft, and adding it to the laundry list of things to be tried in court.