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Yet, my ex co-worker who has been convicted of murder and is serving life without possibility of parole has his account untouched [0]. It's surprising because h
by firefoxd 2y ago
Yet, my ex co-worker who has been convicted of murder and is serving life without possibility of parole has his account untouched [0]. It's surprising because his case was all over the news and tabloids.
Not so Fun fact: a second coworker, from the same company, different crime, has also been convicted and is serving 14 years. (Victim died when police shot the wrong person). His stack overflow account is still up.
[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/users/968075/gareth-pursehouse https://stackoverflow.com/users/968075/gareth-pursehouse
- treyfitty 2y agoThis must have been a helluva company to work for.
- croemer 2y agoThat must be Internet Brands, of WebMD fame, then?
- firefoxd 2y agoWait til you see how they asked employees to comeback to the office... https://www.vice.com/en/article/dont-mess-with-us-webmd-parent-company-demands-return-to-office-in-bizarre-video/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/dont-mess-with-us-webmd-pare...
- mulmen 2y ago[flagged]
- jdmoreira 2y agoAh yes. php of course
- ChocolateGod 2y agoHe needs a filesystem named after him too.
- mrayycombi 2y agoMangioneFS / LuigiFS ?
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoI've been considering writing a distributed filesystem which makes shell pipelines easier to share with others (e.g. stronger guarantees that they'll do the same thing when run elsewhere). Luigi, in the Mario bro's sense, goes through a lot of pipes. Perhaps I'll call it LuigiFS.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoWhy "PHP of course"?
- Cumpiler69 2y ago[flagged]
- Hikikomori 2y ago>Victim died when police shot the wrong person You dont have to use passive language like our media.
- j16sdiz 2y agoThis happens all the time. ReiserFS retain its name when Hans Reiser is convinced of murder. There is no reason to remove one's name or close their account when they are convicted of a crime.
- Manuel_D 2y agoBut did your co-worker see massive online support for the murder, with loads of people arguing it was justified and good for society? He may have been "all over the news", but was it glowing, positive coverage of the murder? Be honest, the coverage of your ex co-worker's crime was not comparable to Mangione's murder, was it?
- johnnyanmac 2y agoSo you need to be famous to get banned from the internet?
- Manuel_D 2y agoNot just famous, but causing users to publicly support the murder and voice support for future murders too. Again, the central point is that most murder is condemned by the public while this one is enjoyable a disturbing amount of support. I bet companies are getting uncomfortable with just how many of their users are supportive of murder, and how much it's going to increase TOS violations for incitement to violence. Do you think advertisers want their products next to threads fawning over a murderer and saying more need to be shot?
- johnnyanmac 2y ago>causing users to publicly support the murder and voice support for future murders too. Sounds like society's problem, not SO. Put it another way, how many people would be checking on Luigi's account On SO in this way without this streisand effect it caused by banning the feww dozen users up voting him? How many people before this even knew Luigi had a SO account? How many of his posts talk about justifying murder? If denying "fame" was SO's goal, they failed tremendously. > Do you think advertisers want their products next to threads fawning over a murderer and saying more need to be shot? Find those threads before we start worrying what may happen retroactively. Luigi had a manifesto, but it's not like he pasted it all over the internet as some sort of deliberate plan to gain social media clout. There are quite a few people legitimately named Adolf Hitler. We don't ban them for their assossiation to a more famous Adolf.