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The admin of the Mastodon instance cyberspace.social just received an AI powered notice to delete the parody account @microsoft@lea.pet

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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (30 children)

The instance rules state;

3 . No impersonation of a person or a brand. Even parodies.

6 . Each username on here should be a person, not a brand or corporation - and that person must be you, no impersonation.

Now I'm not coming to the defense of a corporation because fuck corps but wouldn't this account violate those rules? Microsoft is a (shitty) brand and this is a parody of that.

I might be wrong but thats how I would interpret those two rules.

And again fuck microsoft, even if it does violate the instance rules it should be left alone just to piss of a shitty corp.

Edit: As TherapyGary pointed out, the instance they are on has no rule pertaining to parody accounts, My bad.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 100 points 2 days ago (21 children)

I believe the Microsoft account is hosted on Lea.pet, which doesn't have those rules

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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

don’t harass people if there isn’t a valid reason for doing that

what a nothing rule lol, every harasser believes they are justified

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago
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