It started yesterday when Twitter suspended the brilliant parody account @SalonDotCom that had delivered devastating satire of the left wing priggery of Salon.com.
#FreeSalondotcom Twitter shuts down hilarious http://t.co/wIkE4f1OTJ Twitter account @Salondotcom http://t.co/iaJqwhBPh8
— reason (@reason) July 16, 2014
Suspension of Salondotcom is a bigger story than its existence RT @j_arthur_bloom: The banhammer has fallen. #FreeSalondotcom
— Kevin Glass (@KevinWGlass) July 16, 2014
They shut down @salondotcom and I said nothing, because I was not a hysterically spot-on skewering of @salon's whingy liberal pretense.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 17, 2014
I like to think @salon had to scrap a good 25% of upcoming stories b/c @salondotcom accidentally stole their thunder. #FreeSalondotcom
— Will Antonin (@Will_Antonin) July 17, 2014
I don't understand why they'd suppress @salondotcom and let the obvious parody account @salon continue to operate.
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) July 17, 2014
@Salon Don't like being ridiculed? Step 1: stop being ridiculous. #FreeSalondotcom
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 16, 2014
Fans have risen up in solidarity using the hashtag #FreeSalonDotCom to carry on the work that @SalonDotCom started.
The Democrats Who Founded The KKK And Imposed Jim Crow Were Republicans But Didn't Know It. #FreeSalondotcom
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 17, 2014
Now that Thor is a woman and Captain America is black, isn't it time to ask why there are no gay Transformers? #FreeSalondotcom
— Yale Cohn (@YaleCohn) July 17, 2014
Most of Your Friends AREN'T Black People #freesalondotcom
— dannymoe (@danmoser1961) July 17, 2014
.@Salon Why It's Crucial A Lame Duck President Fundraise While The World Burns. #FreeSalondotcom
— Remulak MoxArgon (@moxargon) July 17, 2014
Bronies 76th Most Oppressed Minority #FreeSalondotcom
— Funes, His Memory (@funeshismemory) July 17, 2014
Scientific Consensus: State-Funded Parody 80% More Efficient Than Any Other Parody #FreeSalondotcom
— Spence (@finditandkillit) July 17, 2014
How the Tea Party shot down an airplane just to interrupt a Presidential burger break. #Freesalondotcom
— Dr Hugo Hackenbush (@MangyLover) July 17, 2014
Why I stopped blaming my alcoholism for the dissolution of my marriage and started blaming Dick Cheney. #FreeSalondotcom
— Yale Cohn (@YaleCohn) July 17, 2014
Christian Love: The Ultimate Hate Crime. #FreeSalonDotCom #Caring
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 17, 2014
https://twitter.com/nickswift498/status/489799474290491392
Exercise and Healthy Food: Perpetuating Oppression By Compromising Your Obligation to Die? #FreeSalondotcom @Popehat
— Art Carden (@artcarden) July 17, 2014
#FreeSalondotcom
Examining the embedded gender bias of Burger King and his hetero-normative Whopper.— edmond dantes (@pvtharoldmoon) July 17, 2014
I was an instant fan after this tweet:
"Why Emojis are the New Blackface"#FreeSalondotcom !!!!
— RockPrincess (@Rockprincess818) July 17, 2014
Free speech ends where my feelings begin #FreeSalondotcom
— Josh Anderson (@joshandersonmsu) July 17, 2014
Twitter’s terms of service give us a pretty good idea who initiated the suspension of @SalonDotCom
"Twitter's policies require that impersonation reports come from the individual being impersonated” https://t.co/wSo7YkwZOo hmm
— J. Arthur Bloom (@j_arthur_bloom) July 17, 2014
Guess they were hitting a little too close to home for Salon.
We’re also guessing that the parody of pretentious loony left blogs is only just getting started.
