Free Salondotcom! Twitter Shuts Down Hilarious Salon Parody Account

At approximately 5:50 P.M. EST, it became known
that Twitter had shut down @Salondotcom, a hilarious parody of
Salon run by The Daily Caller’s opinion editor, Jordan
Bloom, and his roommate, Rob Mariani. @Salondotcom constantly
tweeted fake headlines that perfectly aped Salon‘s
everyone-is-racist-and-Republicans-are-worse-than-Hitler shtick.
Here were a few of the best, courtesy of
Mediaite:

Nanoaggressions: Science reveals structural oppression too small
for human eyes

— Salon.com (@Salondotcom) June
24, 2014

Should GMOs come with trigger warnings?

— Salon.com (@Salondotcom) June
25, 2014

Ten signs your cat might be racist

— Salon.com (@Salondotcom) June
25, 2014

Contrast with some actual Salon stories currently inhabiting the
news website’s “Most Read” headlines section:

How Melissa McCarthy sold out overweight women

From wet T-shirts to oral sex contests: A brief history of
sexploitative party games

I was poor, but a GOP die-hard: I hated government—even
as it was the only thing trying to save me. Here’s how, one day, I
finally saw the light

The account routinely fooled Twitter users on both the
right and left who would click the headlines hoping to be delivered
to Salon articles that confirmed their
own biases.

It’s not clear exactly why Twitter shut down @Salondotcom,
although the social media service has been known to
suspend parody accounts. Still, it’s a shame.

The Twitterverse is currently standing in solidarity with
@Salondotcom by using #FreeSalondotcom
instead. Supporters are even generating some relevant parody
headlines of their own:

Zach
Hanover @zhanover: Why the death
penalty should be reserved for cultural appropriators and twitter
parody accounts #FreeSalondotcom