The saga on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, and how tech always serves the ruling class.

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.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    2·
    9 days ago

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

      • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        0·
        9 days ago

        It will likely take months, but I’m gonna try. I might give up before it is done, though.

            • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              8 days ago

              Luigi, Luigi, who can I turn to?
              You give me something I can hold onto!
              Things can’t stay the way that they were before
              It’s time to put some villains up on the wall!

              Luigi I got your number!
              I think it’s hero time!
              Luigi don’t change your number!

              Four six one six two five oh!
              Four six one six two five oh!
              Four six one six two five oh!
              Four six one six two five oh!

              Luigi Luigi you’re the guy for me
              Oh, you don’t know me but you make me so happy. I tried to free you but I lost my nerve. I said “nullification” but I got censored

              Luigi I got your number. I think it’s hero time. Luigi don’t change your number

              Four six one six two five oh!
              Four six one six two five oh!
              Four six one six two five oh!
              Four six one six two five oh!

              I got it (I got it) I got it
              Put those assholes on the wall!
              I got it (I got it) I got it
              For the good of, for the good of us all!

              Luigi, Luigi who can we turn to
              (Four six one six two five oh)
              To know our pain, we can always turn to you. (Four six one six two five oh)

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    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.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    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)

  • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    By this logic, everyone charged (not convicted, just charged) should have their accounts and submissions changed in the same manner as Luigi’s.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      Man I sure wish this’d mean all Trump-generated content and speeches got deleted. That’d be genuinely helpful to the world at least…

      • SolaceFiend@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        The presumption or admission of guilt does not and should not justify violating the Creative Commons License, nor perpetrating any illegal behavior agains any individual(s).

        If JK Rowling went out and robbed a bank, or murdered an ex-Husband, in no world or timeline would that give a member of her publishing company the right to scratch out her name from any of her books and replace it with their own or someone else’s.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          should not justify violating the Creative Commons License

          Absolutely. Even a guilty verdict shouldn’t justify violating the Creative Commons License. It should either be completely taken down/hidden, or left in-tact.

          That’s not at all what I’m saying though though, I’m saying that it’s reasonable for the site to take action to hide the account. He’s a public figure with an apparent confession, which is going to attract a lot of attention to that account that otherwise wouldn’t be there. They shouldn’t have done it this way since it violates the Creative Commons License, but I am saying that action to hide/disable the account is warranted.

    • dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      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.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    0·
    8 days ago

    i have no love for brian thompson or ceos but the canonisation of a well off wealthy rich kid from a family of republicans is a bit disturbing.

        • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 days ago

          I’m going to guess that you don’t understand exactly what you’re doing. So let me put it into a different context.

          During the last major civil rights movement, the black community coined term “black lives matter”. To combat and drown out that message, conservatives created their own message, “all lives matter”. It was effective in the sense that it drummed up rage against conservative so much that the message of “Black Lives Matter” lost its volume and couldn’t be heard.

          What you’re effectively doing, is pulling an “all lives matter”. you’re (unwilling or not) muddying the message that the elite and rich are abusing the system to take advantage of the people.

          The mechanics of this message you’re supporting attempt to draw more attention to Luigi’s socioeconomic background over the actions he took. The actions he took being, the assassination of a CEO who has killed thousands, if not more, of American citizens based on the executive actions he took to increase profits over human life. Not only that, but he also supported unfair and inhumane treatment towards patients.

          Fortunately, the message you’re unwittingly spreading is weaker than the real message behind the actions that Luigi took.

          BTW, because I’ll probably get banned for posting his message here, I’ll share the article that has it. just in case you’re confused about why he did what he did.

          https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

            • zeca@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
              1·
              8 days ago

              people being offended by comparisons is something that puzzles me every time i see it.

              One common trait between two things is enough to make an analogy. The differences between the objects being compared doesnt hinder the argument as it is based on the similarities alone.

                • zeca@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
                  1·
                  8 days ago

                  Pointing that A is like B regarding the aspect X is often treated as a “comparison” between A and B, but it doesnt imply that A is as great, as important, or as bad as B. It doesnt imply that A is like B in any way other than in the aspect X.

                  Why not focus on the point that is being made instead of freaking out over the angles from which the analogy breaks down. Every analogy breaks down from some angle.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      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.