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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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] 111 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's fucking bullshit.

Censorship needs to die.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 22 hours ago

platforms like this are essentially private ownership of the commons

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[–] [email protected] 383 points 1 day ago (20 children)

user4616250 will now be a famous meme. "How do we fix healthcare? We call user4616250."

[–] [email protected] 43 points 22 hours ago

Anytime a CEO does something questionable; "/ping user4616250"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

It’s like squid game where they identify you by a number. Long live user4616250

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Do not forget me user4616250

Look down, look down You'll always be a slave Look down, look down You're standing in your grave

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

"He knew that man was me. Without a second glance! That Micky Ds employee spotted me. The crime stoppers bounty is his chance!

Why should I try to hide? Why should I go unkown. When I have come so far. And struggled for so long?

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, they have won!

I am the ceo slayer that got away. They all are looking at me. How can I abandon them? How would they live. If I am not free?

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Who am I? Should not this wage slave benefit. Pretend I do not feel his agony. This innocent who can be set free.

Who else should face their judgment. Who am I? Can I conceal myself for evermore? Pretend I am the man I was before? And hide my crime until I die.

Be no more than an alibi? Must I lie?

How can I ever face my fellow men? How can I ever face myself again? My fate belongs to capitlism, I know. I made that bargain long ago. I gave them hope when hope was gone. I gave them strength to journey on.

[He appears in front of the court]

Who am I? Who am I? I'm Luigi!

[He unbuttons his shirt to reveal the scares of a botched surgery]

And so UHC, you see it's true. This man bears no more guilt than you! Who am I?

user4616250!"

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Jean Valjean was labelled prisoner number 24601, apropos of nothing

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[–] [email protected] 179 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 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)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Hackers

Pro CEO and Pro Corporate

What fuckery is this?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago (2 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] 14 points 17 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 day ago (5 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] 13 points 17 hours ago

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

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[–] 0x0 82 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Righteous censorship, got it.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Can’t have a “terrorist” demonstrating his competence and productivity after all.

The overlords know they’ve really fucked up when the competent, productive people start getting resentful and side-eyeing the system.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry everyone, the new President is going to rename the Gulf of Mexico and annex Greenland, so that will take care of it!

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[–] [email protected] 147 points 1 day ago (4 children)

They're scared of Luigi still, got it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago

Fucking terrified. I've never seen corpos circle their wagons like this before. It's hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

That's not what the article is about. Stack Overflow has kept content that Luigi created up, but removed his username, in violation of Creative Commons. Edited the post to make that more clear.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 day ago (10 children)

If they weren't afraid of what he represents they wouldn't have removed his name.

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