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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by palmfacehn on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:28AM (#42643429)
>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

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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by oneeyedpigeon on Thursday January 09, 2025 @05:15AM (#42643759)
Your Wikipedia link is very useful since it clarifies that Damnatio memoriae refers to exclusion "from official accounts".
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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by palmfacehn on Thursday January 09, 2025 @10:03PM (#42652031)
>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?

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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by immibis on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:21AM (#42654043)
Why the scare quotes?
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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by palmfacehn on Friday January 10, 2025 @11:32PM (#42663316)
The quotes are from the article's title.
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