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Fake Kenneth Cole publicly blackmails real Kenneth Cole

If there were ever a gray area ready for discussion, this is it. A social-media identity theft leads to publically blackmailing a corporation into being socially responsibility? Discuss amongst yourselves. 

A little backstory here: @KennethCole made a shitty corrolation bewtween the riots in Egypt and an online sale. I'm not saying it wasn't funny, but someone probably got fired. About eight minutes afterwards, the illegitimate @KennethColePR popped up and started making similar crass commentary. I can only assume that when asked to stop they proposed this socially beneficial solution: 

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Or to see how consumers lashed out IRL, look at this. Thanks to PR wiz and fashion-maven-turned-hipster @kkohler124 for pointing this one out.