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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] 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.