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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
 

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] 193 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 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)

[–] Dayroom7485 113 points 1 month 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] 24 points 1 month ago

Wow, they also changed the title lmao. I posted it with the same title as the article

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] chiliedogg 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Even if the 13% number were accurate - that's a pretty damning number. 13% of people supporting someone for gunning down a CEO in cold blood is terrifying to CEOs.

That's not 13% hating them. That's 13% of people celebrating someone for killing them. No lawsuits. No trials. Just gunning them down in the streets. Things have gotten really bad when you have that much of the population actively supporting your murder.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If billionaires were protected as we protect children in schools, we’d literally run out billionaires in a month.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This is the only solution to modern world problems. Imagine how many problems we would solve right away if we started gunning down powerful people, CEOs, politicians.

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

That 13% would also be people who would openly admit to supporting his actions. There are a lot of people who condemn his actions publicly but in their own minds...?

[–] Dasus 20 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hackers

Pro CEO and Pro Corporate

What fuckery is this?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Live too long and become a villain

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

Wait, seriously? WTF is it named hacker news? Hackers are the least corporate people out there...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because those are the equivalent of Hippies that turned Yuppies.

[–] turmacar 1 points 1 month ago

Yuppies are weird because it was originally just a way to keep them in the news ("new movement! new group! news at 11!") and be ridiculous. They got the DoD to sign a contract about exactly how high they were permitted to levitate the Pentagon.

And then it had it's own Eternal September moment. But everything seems to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

laughs in Google “do no evil”

[–] TheEighthDoctor -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Most American hackers need a security clearance to work, you won't find them supporting Saint Luigi online

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Lmao it has 3x as many votes as anything else on HN but the moderated pushed it all the way down to page 3 (position 60-something when I just checked).

[–] buddascrayon 1 points 1 month ago

What kind of world have we come into where Hacker News is a pro corporation website?

Hackers used to be the antithesis of big corporations and capitalist overreach.