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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by dexa_scantron@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pled not guilty. No he did not.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty much everyone pleads not guilty, especially in a politically motivated murder charge (there's always a chance of a hung jury or jury nullification). That said, his manifesto could be considered a form of confession and will certainly be used as evidence to that effect.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He pled not guilty, it really is that simple.

Innocent until proven guilty.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I never said he was guilty, I said he confessed. A plead of "not guilty" doesn't necessarily mean you think you're innocent (i.e. you perjure yourself; the 5th amendment protects against that), it just means you want to go through a trial. You can confess and still choose to go through trial proceedings.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To add, plenty of innocent people give false confessions of guilt. It’s a known pattern in human behavior especially under stress and duress.

I have no information to say whether this case is an example of that one way or the other, but just putting that out there.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago

I'm just saying that there's probably enough evidence that it's reasonable for a social media site to pull/hide his profile despite not being sentenced. He's obviously innocent until proven guilty, but that doesn't mean his profiles are immune from vandalism and whatnot.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I was not aware he confessed and can't find anything saying he did. Do you have a source confirming he's confessed?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's more his manifesto, which has a clear motive.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So he hasn't confessed and you just believe what law enforcement and the media says?

Nah fuck that he's innocent.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -1 points 22 hours ago

I doubt that. Regardless, that's not the point here, the point is that he's a public figure and shutting down his SO makes a lot of sense to avoid vandalism and whatnot. He is a very credible suspect in a high profile murder.