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January 3, 2018 in
Texas’s Online Impersonation statute, Penal Code Section 33.07:
(a) A person commits an offense if the person, without obtaining the other person’s consent and with the intent to harm … any person, uses the name or persona of another person to:
(1) create a web page on a commercial social networking site or other Internet website; or
. . .
(c) An offense under Subsection (a) is a felony of the third degree.
(“Harm” includes any disadvantage.)
So this (archived version) is a third-degree felony.
I’ll be including it in my next brief challenging the statute.
So if a person were to create a parody Twitter account for somebody . . . ?
That’d be like waving a red flag saying “PLEASE CHARGE ME UNDER THIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL STATUTE!”
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/election/article190051869.html