Kathy Griffin suspended (permanently?) from Twitter
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I don't care. If you're verified, and you change your most visible identifier to that of someone else, you deserve the ban. If you want to make a parody account, don't launder a verified account to do it.
I think this is rather obvious parody and a rule banning it is in line with autists demanding someone add "/s" to sarcasm, BUT a simple solution is if you are verified with name X and change that name, you immediately lose verification and the blue checkmark until you verify the new name or change back to the correct one.
I'm honestly surprised verification doesn't lock your name. If this is your official, public-facing account that represents you as a person, why would you be changing your name?
On the off chance people have the same name?
It can happen, especially in asia. In singapore, we have a presidential election where all 4 candidates had the same surname but weren't related to each other
Sure, I agree there should be exceptions for, well, exceptional circumstances. But something like that could be easily handled by one of the 7500 upper middle class female Twitter employees that did absolutely nothing all day.
I agree, and Dank immediately got a temp ban for doing it with a blue check (he had never gotten a temp ban for doing it previously).
A permaban, however, is rather a large step up, and Elon's 'clearly parody' statement doesn't really cover the '@kathygriffin' part of the equation.
Justice Dankula was the funniest thing on Twitter since its inception.