Twitter Bans Creepy Porn Lawyer Parody Account in War Against Comedy
Tom Pappert
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Twitter banned an account parodying Michael Avenatti, the former lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, in its latest purge of conservative accounts.
The parody account @porn_lawyer was banned by Twitter earlier this week as part of the platform’s latest purge. The account parodied the persona of Avenatti, who frequently locks his Twitter account and recently blocked this Big League Politics reporter after ordering me to “go f**k” myself for chastising him about posting about his children on the platform.
The @porn_lawyer account was banned late at night on May 6. No reason for its ban is known.
Now Twitter has suspended @porn_lawyer, another parody account. This was a parody account of Michael Avenatti.
Twitter must be doing a massive purge on parody accounts tonight.
Will Twitter start permanently suspending all the Trump parody accounts now? pic.twitter.com/eWFu9GwfRh
— Courtney Holland ???????? (@hollandcourtney) May 7, 2019
Twitter also banned the popular parody account that mocked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, even though it explicitly complied with Twitter’s rules by identifying itself as “parody” in both the account’s name and its bio area.
The @AOCpress account was run by Twitter user @OfficeOfMike, who was also banned, and posted over-the-top and highly satirical tweets parodying the policies and beliefs of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It clearly marked itself as a parody both in the name of the account, and in the account’s bio area, with the sentence “I’m the boss… you mad bro? (parody)”.
This type of self identification as a parody account would seem to be precisely what Twitter requires for such an account to exist on its platform.
According to the rules Twitter sent to the @AOCpress account’s email address, which the big tech platform claims the account broke.
Twitter’s censorship war against conservatives has also seen the @MAGAphobia account, which chronicled instances of violence against supporters of President Donald J. Trump summarily banned, the popular Carpe Donktum account that has been retweeted by President Trump suspended for 12 hours, and the account of conservative writer and intellectual David Horowitz permanently suspended, reinstated, and permanently suspended again.
It is unknown what provoked this latest Twitter purge of conservative voices, but it comes on the heels of Facebook labeling prominent conservatives “hate figures” and banning them. These included Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and Milo Yiannopoulos. (READ MORE: Facebook Hires Former Hillary Employee to Inform Media of Alex Jones Ban)
President Trump recently met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, presumably to discuss the mass censorship on his platform, and the discussion appears to have fallen on deaf ears.
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