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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 163 points 3 months ago (4 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] 152 points 3 months ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Preemptive compliance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In tejas we call that bootlicking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago

Kiss the ring.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It's pretty standard when a highly-publicized murder suspect's online profiles are discovered. Platform admins will typically disable/hide their accounts from the public while investigations/trials are ongoing. This is hardly unique to Luigi.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago

Do you have other examples? Because the article gave an example of a similar account that was not anonynized like this. Sure, accounts are often taken down, but the content isn't left up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How would this apply to the fediverse

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months 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 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm starring this cause I want to look into this myself, and if I find any technical sources that address this claim and actually detail this as a SOP, I'll reply with that source later, or otherwise reply with "I didn't find anything."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Source: your ass

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

maybe its poisoning the ai training