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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[-] Zier@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Anytime a CEO does something questionable; "/ping user4616250"

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Do not forget me user4616250

Look down, look down You'll always be a slave Look down, look down You're standing in your grave

[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"He knew that man was me. Without a second glance! That Micky Ds employee spotted me. The crime stoppers bounty is his chance!

Why should I try to hide? Why should I go unkown. When I have come so far. And struggled for so long?

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, they have won!

I am the ceo slayer that got away. They all are looking at me. How can I abandon them? How would they live. If I am not free?

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Who am I? Should not this wage slave benefit. Pretend I do not feel his agony. This innocent who can be set free.

Who else should face their judgment. Who am I? Can I conceal myself for evermore? Pretend I am the man I was before? And hide my crime until I die.

Be no more than an alibi? Must I lie?

How can I ever face my fellow men? How can I ever face myself again? My fate belongs to capitlism, I know. I made that bargain long ago. I gave them hope when hope was gone. I gave them strength to journey on.

[He appears in front of the court]

Who am I? Who am I? I'm Luigi!

[He unbuttons his shirt to reveal the scares of a botched surgery]

And so UHC, you see it's true. This man bears no more guilt than you! Who am I?

user4616250!"

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

A musician needs to write a catchy tune to put the name to so people will remember the numbers.

[-] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

♪ 0118 999 88199 9119 725 ...3

[-] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

"calling user 461-62-50, he's our dude, what he does is nifty!" :)

[-] bizzle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3

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[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

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.

Laws mean nothing anymore. Therefore licenses mean nothing. Therefore ownership means nothing, and "theft" no longer exists.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Therefore ownership means nothing, and “theft” no longer exists.

WOAH WOAH WOAH... hold on there Circuitfarmer (checks clipboard) It says here you're not nearly affluent enough to circumvent the law... we'll be keeping a close eye on you... --BB

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

They're scared of Luigi still, got it

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's not what the article is about. Stack Overflow has kept content that Luigi created up, but removed his username, in violation of Creative Commons. Edited the post to make that more clear.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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)

[-] Whateley@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Hackers

Pro CEO and Pro Corporate

What fuckery is this?

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Live too long and become a villain

[-] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The submission has been clearly penalized by hn moderators: Posted 3h ago, upvoted >600 times with almost 500 comments, ranking 23rd on the front page. Ranking first currently is a submission with 80 upvotes, posted 1h ago.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Wow, they also changed the title lmao. I posted it with the same title as the article

[-] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago
[-] timlyo@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago

Hacker News. it's a link aggregator website and forum at news.ycombinator.com

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Even if the 13% number were accurate - that's a pretty damning number. 13% of people supporting someone for gunning down a CEO in cold blood is terrifying to CEOs.

That's not 13% hating them. That's 13% of people celebrating someone for killing them. No lawsuits. No trials. Just gunning them down in the streets. Things have gotten really bad when you have that much of the population actively supporting your murder.

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

By this logic, everyone charged (not convicted, just charged) should have their accounts and submissions changed in the same manner as Luigi's.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Man I sure wish this'd mean all Trump-generated content and speeches got deleted. That'd be genuinely helpful to the world at least...

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[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

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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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago

i have no love for brian thompson or ceos but the canonisation of a well off wealthy rich kid from a family of republicans is a bit disturbing.

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

Righteous censorship, got it.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Can’t have a “terrorist” demonstrating his competence and productivity after all.

The overlords know they’ve really fucked up when the competent, productive people start getting resentful and side-eyeing the system.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month 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?

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

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 1 points 1 month ago

Preemptive compliance.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Here's a fun fact I just recently came across. In the medieval times when the church wanted to remove a heretic, someone who was speaking out in opposition to church doctrine, they would burn those people at the stake. The reason they would do this was not because this was a common practice to burn people at the stake but in order to prevent relics of the heretics from being collected and giving their followers something to rally around.

I think Luigi's Stack Overflow history is a relic of his existence and something people could rally around and the powerful don't want that to exist.

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