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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]
 

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] 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

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I edited the post to call that out specifically

[–] [email protected] 39 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

His name was Luigi Mangione.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 20 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Luigi definitely didn't have bitch tits.

[–] [email protected] 190 points 1 day ago (21 children)

Stack Overflow has been toxic for a long time already. It's one of the things that a lot of people seem pleased to see AI devour.

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[–] [email protected] 205 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 153 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Headquarters seems to be:

70 White Lion Street, London, England, N1 9PP

To send all your angry letters too.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Make sure to include bullet points

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bullet points work best when using a 9mm font size.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

(Approximately 25.5 pt. Now, the closest traditionally named font size is 24pt, called "double pica", and Pica Pica is the latin name for the magpie, who is known for stealing and hoarding shiny things. What does this mean??)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 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?

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

In tejas we call that bootlicking

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago

Kiss the ring.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

thanks for this revelation. I'm going to look down the rabbit hole for myself. what a story if his account is true.

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