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Washington Post Tries to Take Down Parody Site Announcing Trump's Resignation
- ddingus 8y agoHilarious! WaPo seems to have lost some of whatever political acumen they may have had. A takedown is not the right response to this. And it's resonant with many people for good reasons, some to do with the President, some to do with our sick body politic, and a part of that illness is WaPo itself. I am quite sure that stings. Rather than reach for a shallow DMCA salve, some levity, humility, and growth would do more than relieve a painful symptom. Frankly, we need media to do more of the hard work. And there is a bonus in there for them! Rather than feeling laughed at (which they are, in fact being laughed at), they could laugh with, secure in better managing and executing their important role in our body politic. All of that, by the way, is precisely why speech of this kind is protected. Those who feel the impact of it probably should. And they do to our mutual benefit.
- tinus_hn 8y agoThat would be unreasonable if the parody had been more creative instead of just copying the Washington Post logo. If the threshold is if a reasonable person would confuse this for the real thing, that threshold is crossed.