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Peoria Mayor Sends Police To Track Down Twitter Parodist

Posted by timothy on from the how-is-this-playing-in-peoria? dept.

New submitter rotorbudd (1242864) writes with an article at Reason about Jim Ardis, mayor of Peoria, Illinois, who ordered police to track down whoever was responsible for a parody Twitter account mocking him."Guess the good Mayor has never heard of the Streisand Effect. 'The original Twitter account had a total of 50 followers. The new account has over 200.'"

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  1. Re:Isn't parody protected in the US? by JDAustin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What part of the constitution is the right attacking?

    Its the left who attacks the 1st amendment via free speech zones and wanting to limit who is considered a reporter. Its the left who has limited the 4th amendment with there militarization of local police forces. Its the left who has attacked the 10th amendment via increasing the power of the fed over the states.

    Yea, the right has some serious issues, but more and more people on the right are seeing the results and moving back towards the constitution.

    Oh, and Jim Ardis was re-elected with 91% of the vote in Peoria ILLINOIS. Hint....he's a DEMOCRAT.