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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 AK+Marc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Weird Al gets permission because being right and getting sued sucks. Getting permission prevents such issues. It's expensive to win in court, even if you are clearly right.

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