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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] 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Indeed, I wonder if we'll start seeing reforms before or after a copycat strikes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

I doubt before. They're still hoping they can erase or villainize him. I expect the news media will ignore his trial in favor of whatever antics Trump or Musk are up to, and we won't hear much about him until there's a guilty verdict they can parade before the masses in order to dissuade them from copying him. If he does get mentioned, they'll be trying to frame him in as negative a light as possible and downplay his motives. I also expect the big social media will censor discussion under the guise of not promoting violence, or simply shadow ban any mention of him.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah exactly. And they're not allowed to under the Creative Commons licence

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

...and yet...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which is exactly the reason we are in a post discussing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yup, it would be interesting to see this tried in court.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

May I suggest a European one?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don't see how that would be possible, as Mangioni is American and StackOverflow/StackExchange is based in the US. The only way this makes it to European courts is if somehow the holding company that owns it (Prosus) is sued, since they're headquartered in Amsterdam, but that seems incredibly unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

holding company that owns it (Prosus) is sued, since they're headquartered in Amsterdam, but that seems incredibly unlikely.

Idk if theyre headquartered here maybe threes something in European laws idk.

Unlikely sure but I can wish it.

Although I like the company name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 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.