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.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours 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.

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      5 hours ago

      He’s a good example of one can be a class traitor in a good way!

      Why not idolize the folks crossing over to the right side of history?

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      11 hours ago

      He’s closer to you in class and status than Brian Thompson ever was. How fine a comb do you want to use to divide us? Where’s the line?

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        11 hours ago

        what does this have to do with dividing us? i mean they’re both not close to me. they’re both wealthy people from well off families. i think instead of donating a bunch of money to him, people should start donating to people facing vast sums of medical debt.

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          11 hours ago

          Instead of people paying for ridiculous amount of medical debt due to inflated amount of medical bill due insurance companies. Govt can pay for their own people medical coverage who are paying tax for them to run the govt.

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              10 hours ago

              If i have to say both are similar. They work for the ultra rich. They both don’t care about common people, you and I both. That’s why Luigi mangione did what he had to do. Making the rich know their place. Whether he is rich or not doesn’t matter. We needed to send the message across.

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          People do - through tax but the rich divert the funds through policy using laws that they’ve shaped to benefit themselves rather than the nation.

          Honestly, if anyone has a chance of murdering the rich and setting a precedent of self defence over social murder, it’s another rich who can afford an excellent lawyer to see out the lengthy court case.

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        11 hours ago

        you got me; because i don’t like swooning over rich privileged people i’m defending ceos… /rolleyes

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          9 hours 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

          • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            7 hours ago

            comparing luigi to the civil rights movement and black civil rights leaders is wild… and grossly offensive.

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              5 hours ago

              The fact that OP took time to explain everything to you, and you choose to focus on such nonsense instead of seeing the whole picture presented to you shows you have no intention of learning or growing.

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              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.

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                  4 hours 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.