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Ok, I guess parody is not comedy? This freedom thing is hard to keep up with.

I guess it's still ok if it's labelled. The labelling is the issue, not the comedy, isn't it?

It can be argued that "labelled" parody ceases to be comedy at all.

Seems like very obviously labelled accounts are also being banned. H3H3 put up a banner with a poorly written bright red "parody" and replied to his tweets with "this is a parody account" and still got suspended

You can't see the banner in your timeline though. I'd guess he knew that and that's why he put it there...

-- A SEGMENT OF THIS MESSAGE IS A PARODY --

If PARODY between PARODY every PARODY word PARODY the PARODY text PARODY "PARODY" must PARODY be PARODY displayed PARODY that PARODY would PARODY be PARODY a PARODY really PARODY good PARODY way PARODY to PARODY ensure PARODY nobody PARODY was PARODY confused PARODY as PARODY to PARODY what PARODY was PARODY and PARODY what PARODY was PARODY real.

- Elon PARODY Musk PARODY

-- END PARODY SEGMENT --

There's naturally gonna be a lot of places parody isn't labeled parody in blinking lights. It's comedically necessary. Ultimately if it is trivially easy for an average person to realize an account is not authentic (like the twitter handle being different) I think that's a fair and reasonable burden for anyone who imagines Twitter as a place where "humor is legal".

Remember /r/TheDonald. The line between unlabeled parody and political movement can be pretty thin.

That subreddit strayed pretty far from parody very early in its lifetime.

Parody is not necessarily comedy.

It seems (based on the headline and article) that parody is allowed.

No, deception and slander is not comedy.

Sure. But in this case it was entirely comedic in nature.

No one profited or benefited from the endeavour and I don't think anyone seriously believed that this was Musk commenting.

The person who does Safety at Twitter has been there for many years and he is pretty far on the “new left” side. Apparently, even he disagrees with you.

"the person" :') You're funny.

Yoel Roth. He has been in that position for almost a decade. Why is the funny?

The assumption that it is a single person taking action against mislabeled parody accounts (like you suggested, by saying even Yoel disagreed with OP) is amusing, because naturally it isn't the case.

Nobody said that. Please don’t do that.

> The person who does Safety at Twitter has been there for many years and he is pretty far on the “new left” side. Apparently, even he disagrees with you.

Did you not say this? ^ Because it is literally what this says/implies.

He is the lead and could have stopped the ban, obviously. But there is a team of 2000 people doing bands, not just a single person.

You don’t seem to be interested in any actual conversation, but just trolling.

Well I assure you that's not the case. But you did say something that is factually incorrect (and used left/right politics on top of that) and it had to be called out. If you think I am a troll, I urge you to go through my comment history.

Back to the subject: Yoel being the lead here doesn't necessarily mean he could have done anything about it — in fact, based on what I hear through the grapevine (and trust me on this one, I have very good sources), many of these things are being done one-off by Musk himself — which is disheartening on its own.

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