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.

  • @[email protected]English
    58•17 hours 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.

    • @ansizEnglish
      23•16 hours ago

      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]English
      2•16 hours ago

      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]English
        3•11 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.

      • sunzu2
        0•12 hours ago

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