Musk didn’t institute that rule, the rule was already in place. Musk’s change was to ban without first giving a warning.

Except for obvious parodies. And Mario giving the finger is an obvious parody.

Given a list of all twitter bans, there would surely be many that we would both agree are obvious parodies. So, obvious is relative, or, a grey area/high weasel potential area to do what you want. So it’s not obvious that anything has changed there either. That’s besides the point though that, while widely reported and repeated, Musk, as far as I’m aware, did not institute the rule about impersonation.

If you seriously think that Nintendo would tweet a picture of Mario "flipping the bird", you don't come across as a neutral arbiter, you come across as someone ridiculous.

Rather confusing thing to try and pin on me. Could you elaborate on how I’ve caused you to think that?

Well you seemed to do everything but acknowledge that the Nintendoofus context was obvious parody, so what else are we to think?

So let me get this straight: what I think about whether a picture of Mario being rude is a joke or not determines if Elon Musk instituted a rule about impersonation? That makes no sense. You also throw ideas around like me pretending to be an arbiter around, makes no sense either. Why do you need it to be about me? “What else are ‘we’ to think?” That’s arbiter talk buddy. Seems to me like you’re trying to drag me personally into a bickering match, I won’t hazard a guess as why. First thing you replied to (reworded for clarity) I think Mario being rude is a joke, I think other times things that are obvious jokes have also been banned. And that’s what this Mario thing is right: joke gets twitter account banned? It’s faulty reasoning for you to assume I know much of anything about Nintendoofus internet drama but I don’t think I need to as long as it boils down to banned for joke. But I also think, and this is most important of all: that what I think has nothing to do with whether Musk instituted a rule or not. That should not be shocking.

Here’s a story anyone at home can confirm or not, before I posted the first comment, I tried to look it up to see if it was true: ‘did Elon musk institute a rule about impersonation’ had to reword a few times and scroll through many pages of news articles from all around the world repeating what I would call the same outrage clickbait from seemingly the same script, before I found a snopes article that actually answered the question and no he did not institute such a rule. That’s interesting and worth pointing out imo for the readers here that are interested in getting full stories, because as I’ve already said, that he instituted such a rule is widely reported and repeated, and is (afaik) incorrect.

>"So let me get this straight: what I think about whether a picture of Mario being rude is a joke or not determines if Elon Musk instituted a rule about impersonation? "

No, what you think about the Nintendoofus context reflects upon your judgment. Which I pointed out was incredibly questionable seeing as how you are somehow incapable of putting the words together to acknowledge it is obvious parody.

That your next step is to write this whole ridiculous long response based upon a premise that isn't even in question is... telling.

Ok. I think going further would bring no benefit and would run against site guidelines. Posting this so you don’t wait for a reply that isn’t coming. Thank you and have a good day.

I don't think the previous rule required one to have to have the word "parody" on the display name, not just the bio.

Elon lowered the bar for triggering the rule , and made the punishment harsher: insta-ban, from someone who was against perma-bans less than 20 days ago - that change to an old rule is so large,it might as well be a new rule.