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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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] 161 points 1 week ago (15 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] 151 points 1 week ago (4 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 84 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Preemptive compliance.

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

In tejas we call that bootlicking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

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

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