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Stack Overflow licensed its users’ answers to OpenAI through OverflowAPI for ChatGPT. Some users tried to delete or deface their posts in protest, and moderators answered with 7-day suspensions. The volunteers wrote the content for free. Stack Overflow sold it, and now punishes anyone who tries to take theirs back.