If you impersonate another - beware.

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In Illinois, the police seized several computers, and any device that could access the internet, under a warrant to attempt to find the person that was impersonating the town mayor.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/twitter-parody-account-holder-sought-in-police-raid/

The Lanham Act prohibits cybersquatting and this could be a federal civil complaint and lawsuit, but Illinois has taken the matter a step further and is attempting to make it a matter of impersonating a government official. The Fed's aslo have laws prohibiting impersonation.
 
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