[FortiDude]

unlabelled satirical identity theft is identity theft

[maxbond]

Identity theft is not a joke, Jim.

[pavlov]

"You wouldn't steal a car

You wouldn't steal a movie

You wouldn't steal an identity

Parody. It's a crime."

[romanovcode]

Millions of families suffer every year!

[labrador]

Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not an identity thief

[jychang]

Yes, the solution is to label everything. You should label your comment as known to the State of California to cause cancer, or birth defects or other reproductive harm.

[krapp]

If only Twitter had some means by which one could verify one's identity and add a signifier to the account.

[FortiDude]

If the whole point of your account is to make people laugh with the imaginary pretense that your posts are coming from another person/institution then yes, the potential readers should know it's fake.

A comic strip artist that I follow constantly puts fake words into famous peoples' mouths in his newspaper sections, but even tough I know it's fake I can still partake in the momentary delusion and get a good laugh

[tchaffee]

And hate speech can be harmful. But hate speech is free speech. Is unlabeled parody free speech?

[hulitu]

> And hate speech can be harmful. But hate speech is free speech. Is unlabeled parody free speech?

Come on, everybody knows that: unlabeled parody is hate speech /s

[FortiDude]

Can you impersonate someone as a joke? No. Parody is not identity theft.

When a comedian "impersonates" a politicians we all partake in a temporary delusion aided by the comic's ability to mimick the politician. Everyone knows it's fake but we laugh nonetheless. Making a hyper-realistic deep fake video of a politician saying absurd stuff is not free speech without appropriate labelling.