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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] 49 points 20 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 18 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Fair enough

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Not to be too “WELL AKSHOOOALEEE” I just think people - myself included - got used to how relatively quiet things felt in the mid 2010’s and didn’t realize this shift was happening.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I got you. You and I, brother - for a moment there it seemed anything was possible, but I guess the John Birch Society never went away.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 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.