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.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
    66·
    18 hours ago

    If they weren’t afraid of what he represents they wouldn’t have removed his name.

    • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      15 hours ago

      Yeah exactly. And they’re not allowed to under the Creative Commons licence

              • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                10 hours ago

                I don’t see how that would be possible, as Mangioni is American and StackOverflow/StackExchange is based in the US. The only way this makes it to European courts is if somehow the holding company that owns it (Prosus) is sued, since they’re headquartered in Amsterdam, but that seems incredibly unlikely.

                • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  10 hours ago

                  holding company that owns it (Prosus) is sued, since they’re headquartered in Amsterdam, but that seems incredibly unlikely.

                  Idk if theyre headquartered here maybe threes something in European laws idk.

                  Unlikely sure but I can wish it.

                  Although I like the company name.

        • SolaceFiend@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 hours ago

          This is the equivalent of a bank robber standing in a vault, filling his bag full of jewels. One of the hostages yelling “You can’t do this, it’s illegal.” Some other guy yells “…and yet…” minutes before police sirens can be heard outside.

          I look forward to Mangiine catching wind of this, which is basically theft, and adding it to the laundry list of things to be tried in court.