Technology

60348 readers

5815 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

L3s

enu

technopagan

1825

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

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

250 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's fucking bullshit.

Censorship needs to die.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

"Cancel culture" as a term has been abused, but this one... damn this is really cancel culture.

[–] nutsack 44 points 1 day ago

platforms like this are essentially private ownership of the commons

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

never out blind fate in corporations or govenments