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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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] 154 points 2 months ago (18 children)

They're scared of Luigi still, got it

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 2 months 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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”.

Inspector Javert aah behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 161 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's pretty standard when a highly-publicized murder suspect's online profiles are discovered. Platform admins will typically disable/hide their accounts from the public while investigations/trials are ongoing. This is hardly unique to Luigi.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How would this apply to the fediverse

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago

Do you have other examples? Because the article gave an example of a similar account that was not anonynized like this. Sure, accounts are often taken down, but the content isn't left up.

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago

Kiss the ring.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Stack Overflow fucking sucks, it's dead.

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[–] [email protected] 199 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I've read it is still well valued because people will keep asking questions there when LLM can't answer, so they remain a precious source of post LLM curated Q&A.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Until it's just AIs answering questions asked by other AIs while human admins block human accounts..

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is there a mirror for Stacks content? I've been concerned for some time that they are a vital resource that a corporation could ruin at any moment.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

You can download pretty much all of stackoverflow as ZIM files for self-hosting.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Stack Overflow seems to be doing a prompt job of that already

[–] [email protected] 218 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 161 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Headquarters seems to be:

70 White Lion Street, London, England, N1 9PP

To send all your angry letters too.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Definitely not any kind of HQ. I'd be surprised if more than one or two people go there for Stack Exchange. Mostly remote employees?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used to live in that neighborhood. That must just be one of those places that gives people an address that looks fancy methinks

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

It’s a place called “Spaces” seems like companies rent a small room or so as a physical presence.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Make sure to include bullet points

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Bullet points work best when using a 9mm font size.

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