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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month 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)

    • @Dayroom7485
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      1131 month ago

      The submission has been clearly penalized by hn moderators: Posted 3h ago, upvoted >600 times with almost 500 comments, ranking 23rd on the front page. Ranking first currently is a submission with 80 upvotes, posted 1h ago.

    • @chiliedogg
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      261 month ago

      Even if the 13% number were accurate - that’s a pretty damning number. 13% of people supporting someone for gunning down a CEO in cold blood is terrifying to CEOs.

      That’s not 13% hating them. That’s 13% of people celebrating someone for killing them. No lawsuits. No trials. Just gunning them down in the streets. Things have gotten really bad when you have that much of the population actively supporting your murder.

      • @[email protected]
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        221 month ago

        If billionaires were protected as we protect children in schools, we’d literally run out billionaires in a month.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        This is the only solution to modern world problems. Imagine how many problems we would solve right away if we started gunning down powerful people, CEOs, politicians.

      • @buddascrayon
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        1 month ago

        That 13% would also be people who would openly admit to supporting his actions. There are a lot of people who condemn his actions publicly but in their own minds…?

    • @Dasus
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      201 month ago

      “Look at our corporate polls! Stop liking him!”

    • @[email protected]
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      151 month ago

      Wait, seriously? WTF is it named hacker news? Hackers are the least corporate people out there…

        • @turmacar
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          11 month ago

          Yuppies are weird because it was originally just a way to keep them in the news (“new movement! new group! news at 11!”) and be ridiculous. They got the DoD to sign a contract about exactly how high they were permitted to levitate the Pentagon.

          And then it had it’s own Eternal September moment. But everything seems to.

      • @TheEighthDoctor
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        1 month ago

        Most American hackers need a security clearance to work, you won’t find them supporting Saint Luigi online

    • @[email protected]
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      141 month ago

      Lmao it has 3x as many votes as anything else on HN but the moderated pushed it all the way down to page 3 (position 60-something when I just checked).

    • @buddascrayon
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      11 month ago

      What kind of world have we come into where Hacker News is a pro corporation website?

      Hackers used to be the antithesis of big corporations and capitalist overreach.