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

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by dexa_scantron to c/technology

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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] 162 points 1 month 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] 152 points 1 month 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.

[–] dexa_scantron 85 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Preemptive compliance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In tejas we call that bootlicking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

In Netherland we call that “kontkussen” which both means “butt kissing” as a verb and “butt pillow” as a noun.

[–] normalexit 65 points 1 month ago

Kiss the ring.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month 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.

[–] dexa_scantron 71 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How would this apply to the fediverse

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It would depend on the software in use, but i think the instance admin could probably delete the account. About renaming... maybe, fiddling with the database. Again, depends on the software (and admin).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It probably wouldn't, because it's unlikely anyone is going to do the work, especially since there are a lot of jurisdictions involved. That's a lot of work for a relatively small userbase.

[–] SolaceFiend 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm starring this cause I want to look into this myself, and if I find any technical sources that address this claim and actually detail this as a SOP, I'll reply with that source later, or otherwise reply with "I didn't find anything."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Source: your ass

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

maybe its poisoning the ai training