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> authorizing someone to impersonate you I don't believe would be made legal anywhere I think you're confused. Celebrities hire third parties to tweet for them

• bryanrasmussen 11y ago
  well, no, I guess in a non-legal context it might be considered impersonation but if you gave me that example and asked me would you consider that impersonating someone I would say uh, no, not if you were hired by that person. Then it's more like acting/broadcasting. If you had an account on twitter and said you were The Real Steve Jobs and everyone believed you were the real steve jobs and not a joke then I would say yes that would be considered impersonation - at which point the context I left out of my answer, considering it a given because I thought it was quite apparent from the top of the thread was that laws against impersonation also have to identify in some way the harm the parties affected by the impersonation suffer. In the original post a statute was linked to http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=528-539 http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&gr... ,this describes a number of ways harm can be incurred in the act of impersonation.