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I'm not even on the Luigi is a hero bandwagon at all, but this is weird.

"Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself." -Hermione Granger

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In case any other Harry Potter nerds come along and worry their memory is completely failing them:

Albums Dumbledore says this in the books. Hermione only has this quote in the movie adaptations.

>JK Rowling Airbrushed From Pop Culture Museum’s Harry Potter Display For “Transphobic Views”

https://deadline.com/2023/08/jk-rowling-airbrushed-from-pop-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

Your Wikipedia link is very useful since it clarifies that Damnatio memoriae refers to exclusion "from official accounts".

>Today's best known examples of damnatio memoriae from antiquity concern chiselling stone inscriptions or deliberately omitting certain information from them.

>The term is used in modern scholarship to cover a wide array of official and unofficial sanctions through which the physical remnants and memories of a deceased individual are destroyed.

Certainly not exclusively from official accounts. Not sure what your point here is?

Why the scare quotes?

The quotes are from the article's title.

Wouldn't call myself a nerd, but I was so confused thinking "isn't this what Dumbledore said to Harry when asking about Voldemort?"

Guess it just shows retention of books overrides movies, given that I've consumed both.

In the 20th century, people theorized about how the transience of digital space will create a mutable history.

We've been living with that now for a few decades. It's still a problem.

Not really. SO probably doesn't want to be dealing with this stuff at all.

Then they should have simply done nothing.

Can't do nothing, as his account was being treated as a shrine. I don't think they want to be the Luigi Magione Shrine website either.

As Evan points out in TFA, this has happened before.

I'll add that it has happened more than a few times.

Past response was to shut down inappropriate behavior in the now (folks rambling on about the person in comments under some programming question, etc.) and let the temporary interest die out on its own.

This time... The response seems to be inviting the Streisand Effect.

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  NOTE TO ALL PERSPECTIVE WHISTLE BLOWERS
  EVEN THE ANNOYING ONES THAT HAVE A LONG
  ESTABLISHED HISTORY OF BEING JERKS:

    YOU CAN REACH EVAN VIA SIGNAL
    281.901.0011.

    OLIVE BRANCH, ETC.

> Can't do nothing, as his account was being treated as a shrine.

So what. He gets a few upvotes. What's the harm for the users, or the platform?

And? I don't see that as a reason to break CC license.

If you're gonna expunge someone, don't half-ass it.

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