{"id":26867,"date":"2014-07-17T09:25:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26867"},"modified":"2014-07-18T08:24:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T13:24:39","slug":"brilliant-salon-parody-shut-down-for-being-too-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/17\/brilliant-salon-parody-shut-down-for-being-too-accurate\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Salon<\/em> parody shut down for being too accurate"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the funniest parody accounts on Twitter<\/em><\/a> disappeared yesterday:<\/p>\n

At approximately 5:50 P.M. EST, it became known that Twitter<\/em> had shut down @Salondotcom, a hilarious parody of Salon<\/em> run by The Daily Caller<\/em>‘s opinion editor, Jordan Bloom, and his roommate, Rob Mariani. @Salondotcom constantly tweeted fake headlines that perfectly aped Salon<\/em>‘s everyone-is-racist-and-Republicans-are-worse-than-Hitler shtick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If anything, @Salondotcom was too good<\/strong>: more than once I mistook their parody tweet for the real thing. And I was far from alone in that.<\/p>\n

It’s not clear exactly why Twitter<\/em> shut down @Salondotcom, although the social media service has been known to suspend parody accounts. Still, it’s a shame.<\/p>\n

The Twitterverse is currently standing in solidarity with @Salondotcom by using #FreeSalondotcom<\/a> instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update, 18 July<\/strong>: Tim Cavanaugh<\/a> has more on the disappointing-but-legit shutdown.<\/p>\n

The Twitter<\/em> parody account @salondotcom got the Royal of the Boot Wednesday evening due to an alleged violation of the microblogging giant\u2019s terms of service. The co-creator of the parody account tells National Review Online<\/em> that Twitter<\/em>, which requires such accounts to be clearly marked as parodies in order to protect the stupid, shut the account down. <\/p>\n

\u201cTechnically we\u2019re in violation of their terms of service for not disclaiming that it is a parody account,\u201d Jordan Bloom, who created @salondotcom with Rob Mariani in June, writes in an e-mail. \u201cBut where\u2019s the fun in that? We\u2019re stubborn enough that if it takes a quota of social justice snitches reporting us or whatever, by god we\u2019ll make \u2019em do it. I suppose we\u2019ll appeal and promise that if they give it back we\u2019ll prominently display our jailhouse tattoos.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Disclosure: This reporter worked with Bloom at The Daily Caller<\/em>, where he is the opinion editor, and I consider Bloom to be among the most redoubtable people in Washington. He is also indefatigable and dauntless.) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Heh. @Salondotcom<\/a> shut down b\/c it confused @Salon<\/a> readers, who were unable to tell it was a parody. There's a moral in here somewhere.<\/p>\n

— Political Math (@politicalmath) July 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n