From Fairfax:
Despite holding what has long been considered one of the Liberal Party’s safest seats, Ms O’Dwyer and the Liberal Party’s social media advisor have forced Twitter to remove photos from an obscure Twitter account that has only 211 followers.
The Twitter account, named “Kelly the new Sophie”, had used photographs of Ms O’Dwyer campaigning with Ms Mirabella.
Twitter says the photographic material from the account has been removed in response to a “Digital Millennium Copyright Act (USA) takedown notice”. The notice lists the “copyright owner” as Kelly O’Dwyer.
Twitter states the complaint was lodged by Jennifer Freind (sic), who is described as the social media advisor to the Victorian Liberal Party.
However, most of the photographs on the site appear to be under copyright not to Ms O’Dwyer, but to Fairfax Media.
A member of the group that established the “Kelly the New Sophie” account (who wished to remain anonymous but claims links to the Liberal Party in Higgins) told Fairfax Media that Ms O’Dwyer’s complaint to Twitter seemed “a bit of an overreaction to a joke account with 200 followers, a significant proportion of whom are pornbots”.
More fine “liberalism” at work.
