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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by dexa_scantron@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

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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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 2 hours ago (6 children)

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.

Laws mean nothing anymore. Therefore licenses mean nothing. Therefore ownership means nothing, and "theft" no longer exists.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 30 minutes ago

Therefore ownership means nothing, and “theft” no longer exists.

WOAH WOAH WOAH... hold on there Circuitfarmer (checks clipboard) It says here you're not nearly affluent enough to circumvent the law... we'll be keeping a close eye on you... --BB

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

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[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 62 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

“No wars but class wars” as true today as when Trotsky said it many decades ago. Not sure how anyone cannot see this very, very clear fact, made self evident by the treatment of Luigi and the composition of the upcoming administration and its supporters.

But every other commoner that sees it needs to take according measures.

Culture is not our friend.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 91 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Apropos of nothing, this was an article about substance from a year ago:

Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis

Fuck substack.

Shit, this article is about stack overflow, not substack. Too early, but still fuck substack.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

"Censorship forced me to flee a pro-nazi site to another pro-nazi site," is a contradiction worth noting. It highlights the general pro-nazi vibe going around big tech.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The internet just isn’t fun anymore. Right wing bigots are stomping around and the best communities are all either crumbling or raising their bridges and filling their motes so AI can’t scrape them and these asshats can’t get in, killing the ability for new people to find them. And who can blame them? They want to protect their communities from very real threats.

The internet is Balkanizing and it’s to our collective detriment.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There’s plenty of leftists, too. But the leftists threaten capital, and fascists don’t, so only one is being targeted/censored.

[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Corporate fascists need the muscle that the stormtroopers can provide in exchange for the loot they pillage.

That’s what we are seeing with the last 10-15 years resurgence of the alt-rights grift.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

It’s less a resurgence and more that they’ve transitioned from AM talk radio/cable news to youtube, podcast platforms, and social media.

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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Capitalists were always going to embrace fascism in the face of rising leftist movements and increasing inequality. Communist theorists predicted over a hundred years ago, and it’s been playing out exactly as they said it would.

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