Twitter gives you an easy way to share the joke while retaining attribution - th...

		DanBC on Jan 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everyone’s stealing jokes online. Why doesn’t anyo... Twitter gives you an easy way to share the joke while retaining attribution - the retweet. I agree that most of the people are just sharing the joke, but a sizable lump of them are trying to create some kind of online brand which they use to get money.

So if we legislate against those people, we also legislate against anyone who tells a joke online.