Kyler Geoffroy: Twitter’s clumsy approach to banning parody political accounts does a disservice to the millions of users who rely on the platform to get context about what’s happening around them. - NBCNewsTHINK
“One of parody’s most powerful capacities is rhetorical: It gives people the ability to mimic the voice of a serious authority … and by doing so demonstrate the target’s illogic or absurdity,”. “Parodists can take apart an authoritarian’s cult of personality, point out the rhetorical tricks that politicians use to mislead their constituents, and even undercut a government institution’s real-world attempts at propaganda.
Musk should know we won’t do ourselves any favors by being cowardly lions and shying away from the imagery and language of, for example, QAnon. By appropriating alt-right memes and messages, my parody project’s goal was to spotlight the ridiculousness of the conspiracy group’s tenets and illustrate how they spread across social media like a virus.removed tens of thousands of QAnon-affiliated
accounts, citing the risk of further civic destabilization. But surely the platform can make space for accounts that shine a satirical light on the continued influence of the group and our modern political system at large? This mimicry, as The Onion noted in its brief, provides unique “functionality and value” that aren’t possible through traditional methods of critique — such as with a straightforward news article about the
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