Gee, big shock, Elon believes in free speech for himself but not others.

Oh heck, turns out this itself was a parody! Harry Potter never has been on Twitter. Well played Weird Al, well played.

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@Juan_Kinda_Guy Twitter announced that they would be deleting 'fake' accounts. A parody account is a fake account.

@marathon0 @Juan_Kinda_Guy I disagree wholeheartedly. Parody and satire are intentionally false but not intending to convince people of the truth of the falsehood. "Fake" or disinformation is something else entirely. And opinions with which we disagree vehemently, or mistaken beliefs, are yet another category. Of course there are gray areas and overlaps between these categories -- which is why it isn't trivial to eliminate "fake news" and disinformation, and why we need *human beings* to make judgements about these categories, and yet another reason why Elon Musk is a disaster for twitter, having fired all the aforementioned human beings.

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