{"id":46403,"date":"2025-01-10T14:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46403"},"modified":"2025-01-10T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:38:08","slug":"luigi-mangiones-account-renamed-on-stack-overflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/10\/luigi-mangiones-account-renamed-on-stack-overflow\/","title":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione’s Account Renamed on Stack Overflow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evan Carroll<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

On Stack Exchange, all of the contributions on the site are contributed under a license maintained by a third party called Creative Commons<\/a>; Creative Commons provides a license which states that licensed content must be perpetually shareable for any purpose including modification and by anyone including for-profit ventures, so long as the work remains properly attributed. This incentivizes content creation because every contributor is working on a corpus of work which is free from royalties and modification restrictions: everyone is bettering and growing the commons by using the site.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Alas, this minimal obligation of attribution is too much for some companies which have sought to erode this right. Right now, on Stack Overflow, Luigi Magione’s account has been renamed<\/a>. Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250<\/a>“. As reported by one of the moderators, Zoe, on Stack Overflow.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mangione has not actually been convicted of anything yet. Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram<\/a> have deleted his accounts, but “the only one that chose to both erase him and keep the content, is Stack Exchange.” It’s not clear whether that’s legal.<\/p>\n\n

The Ross Ulbricht<\/a> case is even more egregious because he was convicted and his old pseudonym remains with his attribution as Ulbricht desired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n