"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Gd6e-rJfY&amp;t=3m37s"">3:37</a> that's crazy.  if only Twitter had some built in system that could let users see if an account tweeting something was the legit one and not an impersonator.... like some kind of verification system.  They could have even added a little symbol or something next to the person's username to make it easy to tell.",(reply>), @MxCn They have to remove CP but they don't have to ban the account posting it. As for the rest of your comment, we have no way of knowing if they got warned and since they got banned it would make sense that they ignored a warning,(reply>), @Blejander good job pulling the first line off of google and not reading any further.  if you were to actually read the law it states that other than just using a person's name, impersonation becomes illegal when you ALSO do either:<br><br>post bail for someone using another person's name, try to pass off some sort of document/verification as another person (like a check or somethin), or doing something that would hold another person criminally or civilly liable (like using someone else's name/ID for a ticket<br><br>copied straight from Penal Code 529 PC:<br><br>"(a) Every person who falsely personates another in either his or her private or official capacity, and in that assumed character does any of the following, is punishable pursuant to subdivision (b):<br><br>(1) Becomes bail or surety for any party in any proceeding whatever, before any court or officer authorized to take that bail or surety.<br><br>(2) Verifies, publishes, acknowledges, or proves, in the name of another person, any written instrument, with intent that the same may be recorded, delivered, or used as true.<br><br>(3) Does any other act whereby, if done by the person falsely personated, he might, in any event, become liable to any suit or prosecution, or to pay any sum of money, or to incur any charge, forfeiture, or penalty, or whereby any benefit might accrue to the party personating, or to any other person.",(reply>), ​@Tuberi h u h what are you smoking? fam CP is an entirely different topic. That's just straight up illegal from every aspect and twitter has an obligation to straight up ban that stuff. That is irrelevant when talking about a parody account. <br><br>1. As i stated earlier, yes, it's against twitter rules to be a parody account and be verified.  But it literally states on their website under the Loss of Verified Status section that an account impersonating someone can be stripped of verification.  says nothing about it resulting in instant termination of an account.  <br><br>2. Under twitter's Misleading and deceptive identities policy, it is true that the accounts were technically not in proper standing with those rules, but it also states that if the account is clean, they can just notify the account holder what modifications they need to make. <br>"If your account is potentially confusing in terms of its affiliation, we may require you to edit the content on your profile. If you violate this policy again after your first warning, your account will be permanently suspended."<br><br>So unless the banned accounts just decided to completely ignore tos after a warning/notification from twitter, i dont see why the accounts got nuked.,(reply>), @Tuberi if they're only banning people with check marks I'm cool with it cause it means they're only getting rid of the paying users,(reply>), @MxCn So instead of banning someone for posting CP they should just delete their tweet and not ban them? It's against the rules to impersonate someone when you are verified so banning them is fair