Twitter starts banning impersonator accounts without parody labels

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Twitter starts banning impersonator accounts without parody labels

After a weekend where several high-profile users changed their names and pictures to match Elon Musk’s, Twitter’s new owner says the social media platform will crack down on the practice.

“Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying parody will be permanently suspended without warning,” Musk wrote in a Twitter post.

[Bloomberg]

 

[greg0205]

Life comes at you fast...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1586104694421659648

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1589390597798125568

 

[RedViking]

 

[sdrawk]

This guy is going through a crash course on "how to social"

I like how he fired some long-standing employees from the content moderation team and then after a while he found out he needed them and asked them to come back. I hoped they asked for a raise

 

[PsyWulf]

We don't need staff
Twitter doesn't need moderation

*Ragnarok*

 

[Insint]

Life comes at you fast...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1586104694421659648

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1589390597798125568

It makes sense, if text only is used it can cause a lot of confusion. On this forum alone there are people who cannot understand clear sarcasm over normal words. Using the word parody makes the meaning of the text clear.

 

[Virex]

Life comes at you fast...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1586104694421659648

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1589390597798125568

If I call you "a big ****" on here I'll get a warning. But if I pretend to be @Jan and I call you a "big ****". I will get banned. Because I am impersonating someone else.

It's not that difficult to comprehend.

 

[sdrawk]

It makes sense, if text only is used it can cause a lot of confusion. On this forum alone there are people who cannot understand clear sarcasm over normal words. Using the word parody makes the meaning of the text clear.

Comedy -- particularly Twitter's brand of comedy -- isn't that clear to label.

Still, this sounds like something I'd like to see play out.

 

[PaulMurkin]

Good, now Mr Musk, please get rid of the furries and pedos too

 

[noxibox]

Completely defeats the point of parody. The entire point is that it is supposed to look like it could be genuine. Maybe The Onion should send Musk a note to explain comedy to him.

 

[marine1]

Poor Cathy ha ha ha

 

[Vorastra]

A rule that existed before Elongated Muskrat took over, and which leftists were fine with before.
Weird.

 

[LCBXX]

Yoh people really don't like that another can do as they please with their property. Such anti-communist behaviour.

 

[Vorastra]

It's not that difficult to comprehend.

He thinks his side is winning...while they get yeeted off Twitter.

 

[supersunbird]

Completely defeats the point of parody. The entire point is that it is supposed to look like it could be genuine. Maybe The Onion should send Musk a note to explain comedy to him.

That would be feasible, if the whole of Twitter was parody.

 

[LCBXX]

We don't need staff
Twitter doesn't need moderation

*Ragnarok*

Musk should block access, for all Americans, to Twitter completely for the duration of the mid-terms.

 

[Kosmik]

Good, now Mr Musk, please get rid of the furries and pedos too

WTF a furry ever do to you?

 

[PsyWulf]

Oops,seems twitter is asking some fired personnel to return
They were either: accidentally fired or a necessary skill they can't replace

 

[Pegasus]

Completely defeats the point of parody. The entire point is that it is supposed to look like it could be genuine. Maybe The Onion should send Musk a note to explain comedy to him.

I may be proven wrong here, but I think the Onion does not impersonate anybody.

 

[R13...]

Life comes at you fast...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1586104694421659648

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1589390597798125568

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