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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by dexa_scantron@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

user4616250 will now be a famous meme. "How do we fix healthcare? We call user4616250."

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

https://stackoverflow.co/company/leadership/

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

What can Stack Overflow's motivation possibly be to strip Luigi's account? Are their private equity owners in cahoots with health insurance executives?

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I cross posted this to Hacker News (which is very pro-CEO and big corpo) and it's now rank 1 on the front page, lmao. People really support this guy

(And it's funny because in the comments, people are seething "Nooooo he's not popular, look at these polls that show he has 13% approval!!")

(Not sharing link to avoid brigade)

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

What kind of world have we come into where Hacker News is a pro corporation website?

Hackers used to be the antithesis of big corporations and capitalist overreach.