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Guardian Takes Legal Action to Shut Down Parody Headline Generator (pressgazette.co.uk)
6 points by mellosouls on Sept 18, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Come on Guardian.

It's a joke. Now they can't take a joke or let alone meme or create parodies and remixing images for laughs?

Maybe they should keep their guard down for once.


A site for people who can't find their browser's developer tools?


There is some irony in a newspaper attempting to shut down free speech (parody is generally covered as such), and even more so considering it's a left-leaning newspaper yet they chose a very capitalist way to go about it (by hiring a law firm to sue on copyright grounds).

In any case, this may only lead to the inevitable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

The website is down but the Twitter account is still active: https://twitter.com/grauniadmeme




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