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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]

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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] 83 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Righteous censorship, got it.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (2 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 1 day 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!

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

I hope he nukes the moon next time i he's n hot water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

True, although it may also be "good things" done by person do not outweigh "bad thing" done by person. I'm sure there's a name for that.
Like human experimentation. Yes, bad, shouldn't be done, outright illegal, immoral, inhumane, but has been done. Should we discard the scientific results?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

There should be efforts to duplicate the results in an ethical way, the lack of rigorous ethics indicates biases. If you tortured a guy for research, did you also do less bad things like falsify results?

The Stanford prison experiment is a good example, afaik they published in several journals and I don't believe any of them have printed retractions. There are huge problems with the methodology that are still being discussed, and the results are still being referenced.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

Obviously no... We hired these criminals so they can keep doing these experiments in the US!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Righteous censorship is only "righteous" because everyone else is prevented from saying otherwise.