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by chrisseaton 1318 days ago
I guess it's still ok if it's labelled. The labelling is the issue, not the comedy, isn't it?
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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...
It can be argued that "labelled" parody ceases to be comedy at all.
-- 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".