Nasty Twitter Parodies Beware: This Legislation Is About To Get All Up In YOUR Business

Celebrity parodies are pretty hilarious. Mostly.

But what would you do if someone created a mean-spirited Twitter parody pretending to be you and posted all kinds of professionally damaging tweets? You could go through a lengthy court battle and would likely prevail in the end, but that’s pretty harassing in itself.

Fear not though, cyber-victim: there’s a bit of legislation pending in Arizona that seeks to make the prosecution process a whole lot easier – and the penalties steeper.

Some worry that ALL Twitter parodies will be jeopardy, but that really doesn’t seem to be the case.

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