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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 2 days 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] 113 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's fucking bullshit.

Censorship needs to die.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

His name was Luigi Mangione.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Righteous censorship, got it.

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[–] [email protected] 187 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 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)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

"Look at our corporate polls! Stop liking him!"

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 397 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I was thinking tattoo...

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nice and catchy, but it needs to be catchy with more digits. Tommy "Tutone" Heath is still alive. I'm just saying.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

♪ 0118 999 88199 9119 725 ...3

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Moat famous number since 24601

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Please let it be, haha

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[–] [email protected] 149 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They're scared of Luigi still, got it

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (10 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No, they're terrified of us now, they know we tasted blood and are hungry for more.

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 2 days 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

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