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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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] 126 points 3 months ago (17 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That's fucking bullshit.

Censorship needs to die.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

His name was Luigi Mangione.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months 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.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Righteous censorship, got it.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

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

True, although it may also be "good things" done by person do not outweigh "bad thing" done by person. I'm sure there's a name for that.
Like human experimentation. Yes, bad, shouldn't be done, outright illegal, immoral, inhumane, but has been done. Should we discard the scientific results?

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[–] [email protected] 195 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 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 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 113 points 3 months 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] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What does hn refer to?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thx

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

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[–] [email protected] 422 points 3 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I was thinking tattoo...

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months 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 3 months ago (1 children)

I suggest these guys

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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] 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

♪ 0118 999 88199 9119 725 ...3

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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