Personal Account Permanently Suspended
https://twitter.com/daveyalba/status/1477646895849877504
MTG is US House of Representatives member from Georgia, a QAnon supporter, and an outspoken antivaxx proponent.
The QAnon Movement was originally based on a pro-Trump conspiracy theory that a group of global liberal elites run a child sex ring that Mr. Trump would stop.
She was suspended in August after Tweeting the Food and Drug Administration shouldn’t approve the Covid vaccines because they were “failing” to mitigate the spread of the disease.
Absurd Cancer Analogy
In December, Greene made this absurd analogy:
“Every single year more than 600,000 people in the US die from cancer. The country has never once shut down. Not a single school has closed. And every year, over 600,000 people, of all ages and all races will continue to die from cancer,” Greene Tweeted.
She was widely mocked and rightfully so because cancer is not contagious. Her ridiculous comments on cancer were not part of the suspension process.
5-Step Twitter Escalation
- Strike 1: Warning – No Account Level Action
- Strike 2: 12-Hour Account Lock
- Strike 3: 12-Hour Account Lock
- Strike 4: 7-Day Account Lock
- Strike 5: Permanent Suspension
Rolling Stone reports Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Personal Account Permanently Suspended From Twitter for Pushing Covid Lies.
Greene on Saturday afternoon [News Years Day] tweeted that prior to the Covid outbreak deaths from vaccines were taken seriously, but now an “extremely high amount of covid vaccine deaths are ignored and government forced vaccine mandates are increased.”
Greene lashed out at Twitter following the suspension. “Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth,” she wrote as part of a lengthy statement posted on Telegram and to her Gettr account. “That’s fine, I’ll show America we don’t need them and it’s time to defeat our enemies. They can’t successfully complete a Communist revolution when people tell the truth. Social media platforms can’t stop the truth from being spread far and wide. Big Tech can’t stop the truth. Communist Democrats can’t stop the truth.”
Rolling Stone says, and I wholeheartedly agree, “There is no evidence that Covid-19 vaccines are causing a rash of deaths that are being ignored.”
Not a Freedom of Speech Issue
Like it or not, this isn’t a Freedom of speech issue. Belief otherwise is belief that governments can force private companies to post opinions they disagree with!
Bowen is 100% correct. Freedom of speech allows people to speak out against government suppression.
It certainly does not force, nor should it force private businesses to post every point of view. Imagine if Fox News was forced to give equal time to Biden.
There are differences between social media and news organizations, but for good reason. Regardless, the issue has nothing at all to do with constitutional rights of free speech.
OK What Did She Do?
Twitter suspended the account after she Tweeted, falsely, about “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths”. The Tweet posted a misleading chart that posted unverified raw data from a government database on Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, VAERS,
That’s Right Libs!
Both sides want it both ways (but only when it their view being represented).
Why Did MTG Make That Tweet?
- She either wanted to to be banned or did not care if she was banned.
- It’s highly likely she views herself as a freedom of speech martyr.
Should She Be Banned?
We are finally, at long last getting to the real issue and the first one that’s actually reasonably debatable.
“It’s really amazing that the political faction obsessed with deploying a union of state and corporate power to silence their political opponents has somehow convinced itself that they’re the ones fighting — rather than constructing — a fascist order.“
Curiously, Greenwald’s comments can be construed either way.
Slippery Slope?
https://twitter.com/HelmMatthews/status/1477653527304359939
The Left would like to rein in Fox News and would if they could.
The Right says corporations must have the right to set their own rules, cheering the Supreme Court ruling that a baker did not have to bake a cake for a Gay couple.
Now the Right says corporations cannot set their own rules even though the escalation process and warning system is certainly reasonable.
The slippery slope is demanding governments tell private corporations what they can and cannot do under alleged freedom of speech rules even though the case in question constitutionally has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
Good or Bad Policy?
Twitter’s policy is inherently neither good nor bad. The Left sees it one way and the Right the other. Regardless, it’s their call whether we like it or not.
I support their right to conduct their business as they see fit. And I would say exactly the same thing if it was the Left that was howling.
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I wonder if these politicians actually believe what they are saying or if just trying to motivate their base. Also which is more dangerous.
Much like telephone companies, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act offers broad protection for Facebook, Twitter and
other social media from legal liability for the content posted by their users. This protection should come at the expense of their unmitigated right to cancel or sensor
opinions with which they disagree. How is this different than telephone companies,
who are also protected under Section 230, from canceling or censoring their users
simply because they disagree with what is being spoken over their telephone
lines? Curious mind wants to know??
the name B.1.640.2, and was first detected by experts at the IHU
Mediterranee Infection Foundation in Marseille.
According to the paper, the scientists’ analysis of the variant’s genome revealed 46 mutations and “37 deletions resulting in 30 amino acid substitutions and 12 deletions. Fourteen 43 amino acid substitutions, including N501Y and E484K, and 9 deletions are located in the 44 spike protein.”
I would say its hard to have a strategy on any kind of level. More like a general direction. . 328 million people in the country with just as many situations. Were gonna wallow out slowly and do the best we can. Hopefully not only for ourselves but others also. I hope omicron is the next step in covid becoming an average cold. From what i gather. The vax is better at protecting the lungs for some reason. While the omicron like the upper respiratory. The vax will most likely keep you out of the hospital. Either way Sick is sick. Your not supposed to go to work/ be around your elderly grand parents etc when your sick doesnt matter if its covid the flu or anything else.
Did i miss something. I did not see where it said vaxed people were having issues. Just there were more issues. Could go a long with other articles saying people are not taking as good of care of their conditions or put off treatment for one reason or another.
Funny, though, the right has a religious belief in corporations until the left gains control of the corporate office. Being in banking now, wow, has that proved itself evident over the past 5 yrs.
You’ll be fine with me putting a sign that says “kooks live here” on your lawn then? It’s my speech, and it’s free.
Administration shouldn’t approve the Covid vaccines because they were
“failing” to mitigate the spread of the disease.”
It’s part of the conspiracy. Study it out!
She is a fake phony fraud who doesn’t stand by principles.
It really
doesn’t matter anymore because Twitter is no longer necessary for a political
career and being banned especially for medical dissent is not a black mark. Twitter
is a private company but it cannot do what it wants in everything because it
does have to cater to its clientele which tends Democrat and who also tend
toward the Left wing of the Democrats to boot. Twitter’s choice of who gets
banned reflects what that demographic wants and since 80% of tweets are
generated by 10% tweeters that segment rules. Check out their market here:
https://blog.hootsuite.com/twitter-demographics/#:~:text=More%20Twitter%20age%20demographics%20to%20note%3A%201%20More,in%20the%20U.S.%20%28%207%25%20vs%208%25%20%29.
Being
banned from Twitter or Facebook is a non-event. Being banned for covid dissent
is not a sign of scientific depravity but more a sign that Twitter is not a
platform for discussion but a private company whose goal is profits like any
other company and you can’t blame them for that. Today Twitter and Facebook are
no longer the inescapable means of message diffusion that they once were as
alternative media companies have been financed and set up and have a ready
market of dissatisfied legacy media users. A negative consequence that they cannot escape is that their former strategy of buying out potential competitors will be much more difficult now because governments can and will apply ant-trust and other anti-competition laws. Because of their behavior they have birthed a bipartisan movement against them.
One under
looked consequence of Twitters’ behavior or more exactly the behavior Tweeter’s
most important segment is that scientists have learned that they have to be
careful what they say and that Twitter is not the best way to diffuse ideas as
it once was for them. They will exchange ideas by email or other private
networks now as they did before.
Rolling Stone says, and I wholeheartedly agree, “There is no evidence that Covid-19 vaccines are causing a rash of deaths that are being ignored.”
Disclosure. No fan of MTG.
The US will be a fascist dictatorship in less than ten years. Fundamentalist Christianity will be the state religion and all individual freedoms will be outlawed. The right to vote will be restricted to white male landowners and slavery reinstated. Is this a great country or what?
And todays prize for the kookiest thing I’ve read all day goes to you!