By Nick Arama title via Instapundit
Twitter seems to have started the new year going on a rampage after a variety of accounts, including the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
According to reports, Greene was permanently suspended on Saturday for “COVID misinformation.”
https://twitter.com/daveyalba/status/1477647513561837569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1477647513561837569%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fnick-arama%2F2022%2F01%2F02%2Ftwitter-rampage-suspends-marjorie-taylor-greene-grabien-n500367
She still had access to her official account, however.
Precisely what Greene got winged for isn’t clear, but her last tweet was calling out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for spreading the fake conspiracy theory about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis being “missing” — when he wasn’t missing at all.
https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1477643928027512832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1477643928027512832%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fnick-arama%2F2022%2F01%2F02%2Ftwitter-rampage-suspends-marjorie-taylor-greene-grabien-n500367
DeSantis was both working and helping take his wife for cancer treatments. But AOC’s account is up, as are all the accounts that lied and spread the misinformation about DeSantis being “missing.” Indeed, they are still spreading it today, saying that the answer that he was helping his wife wasn’t acceptable, despite local media confirming he was not “missing.”
Now, that seems just an excuse to go after people, since what is “COVID misinformation” seems to change by the day, especially when it comes to the Biden administration and the liberal media. The whole concept of suspending for misinformation is bad to begin with, because it seems purely determined by what is acceptable according to whatever the current liberal political narrative is.
Greene wasn’t the only account on the right that gotten winged over the past week.
The media company Grabien was suspended for quoting the comments and sharing a video of the comments of Rep. Andy Biggs (R- AZ), in which Biggs comments on Big Pharma being against things “Like HCQ and Ivermectin Because of Economic Interests.”
Grabien founder Tom Elliott said they were told they were suspended for “violating the policy on spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.”
Next-level @Twitter absurdity. My company’s account — @GrabienMedia — was just suspended for … quoting a congressman (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) pic.twitter.com/b2WqArtPrs
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 31, 2021
Elliott said the suspension was “next-level Twitter absurdity” and noted prior questionable suspensions he’s gotten from Twitter before.
“Obviously, in this case, quoting an elected leader on an issue that matters to everyone is important and newsworthy, regardless of whether you agree,” Elliott tweeted. “(And I can’t help but add that his basic point was once mainstream among progressives.) I’ve appealed, making this point. However I have no confidence in Twitter doing the right thing and acknowledging this tweet did not violate its terms & conditions.”
As we previously reported, on Wednesday, the social media site permanently suspended noted virologist Dr. Robert Malone’s Twitter account for spreading “‘misinformation’ about the virus and vaccines” — after the AP posted a questionable fact check about him and what he said regarding the Omicron variant.
There maybe new faces at Twitter but its still the same as i was under Dork Face Dorsey
Another dangerous loony loses her free soapbox and megaphone. Maybe she can get an account on Truth Social?
Greg you post alot of baseless idiot comments with no context. How is this member of congress so dangerous . Since when is an account on Twitter a megaphone as shadow banning limits their reach, even to followers.
AOC was the one spreading fake news about the governor, then the weird tweets about everyone wanting to date her, narcissistic much?
Greene is nuts. She used her personal Twitter account to promote divisive conspiracy theory, dangerous COVID disinformation, and inflammatory comments.
Greene STILL HAS her official congressional Twitter account. Anything rational she has to communicate to her constituents or the public at large, she can post there—bearing in mind that not all of her constituents are looking for regular doses of bat-shit crazy, and often recognize it when they see it. She can no longer so easily pretend to be one person to one set of constituents, and a different person to the others.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s official Twitter account:
Tweets by RepMTG
So… once again, you won’t answer a simple question… because it exposes your dishonesty (yeah… we know why you avoid answering questions).
So, by your rationale, why isn’t AOC banned? She has promoted violence, lied, posted “disinformation” and anti-Semitism… why does she still have her account?
Compared with Greene, Ocasio-Cortez is a beacon of reason—and that’s saying a lot more about Greene than Ocasio-Cortez, who is sometimes questionable herself.
“Compared with Greene, Ocasio-Cortez is a beacon of reason” Uh… no. There is no condition where Sandy appears reasonable. She’s a radical socialist. She has no concept of earning a living and paying bills. She thinks every hardship (for her) should be ameliorated by others, namely taxpayers. She’s guilty of campaign finance fraud, is a racist, is an anti-Semite and hates this country.
Greene has done nothing… NOTHING to draw such persecution except be an elected Republican. It’s because of trash like AOC that the Democrats NEEDS censorship and protection of liars.
I say you are a liar until you back these baseless slurs with proof, Ya “conspiracy theory” that term came from the CIA to squash those questioning the Warren report. It has no meaning just a way to cast doubt on anyone questioning the obvious garbage fed to the media to repeat. Magic bullets and other such nonsense. Just ask a question like why did building 7 fall when no plane hit it, if they give a nonsense answer you are guilty of conspiracy theory.
It’s known why Building 7 fell. It was struck by debris from the tower collapse that resulted in multiple internal fires. They burned out of control for hours before structural integrity of supporting columns was lost, resulting in a rapid progressive collapse.
Yes but other steel framed buildings can burn without collapse. You can readily accept the narrative its fine but yet there are valid questions, as it collapsed exactly the same as the buildings hit by airplanes into its own footprint.
Some nobody even got promoted to head of CIA approved passports of the terrorists..go figure.
Dont bother manspaining that failure upward move.
Nuts? According to AOC’s timeline we have 9 years left before it’s too late. You down with that? BTW that prediction will fail, just like all the others have previously.
AOC is the person who was fascinated with a garbage disposal. Fascinated by plants growing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s8R_SCvpWI
You set the intelligence bar so low one has to dig a ditch first to lay it down.
AOC is so rational that when she couldn’t support her racist accusations about the treatment of illegal immigrants at the border, she had to STAGE A PHOTO to try and support her lies. That’s what Greg and Democrats consider “rational”… using ingenuity to promote lies, racism, hate and divisiveness.
“Another dangerous loony loses her free soapbox and megaphone. Maybe she can get an account on Truth Social?”
Without knowing what she posted, how can you say that? Oh, yeah… she’s a conservative, so censorship of any non-liberal facts is approved by the truth-fearing left.
I guess the only acceptable reason for a public servant to be off the job for a moment is for a male to take maternity leave.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is no more of a conservative than Donald Trump, his disciples, or the people who have purged the Republican Party of its conscience, integrity, and reason.
“Compared with Greene, Ocasio-Cortez is a beacon of reason” What possibly qualifies you to judge who is a conservative? Hell, you voted for that lame, incompetent idiot Biden; you have NO judgement of personality, ability or ideology. All you know is what you are told to know.
You think having a “conscience” is attacking someone for looking after their wife during cancer treatments? If you go without credibility much longer, you’ll forget what it is or what it is for.
What qualifies me? A conservative background and decades of observation. The GOP has gone off the conservative rails.
“It’s a matter of reasonable social media platform owners taking back their free soapbox from someone who spreads COVID disinformation that can kill people.” But you HAVE no judgement. You demonstrate that. You think it acceptable for rabid liberals to threaten kids with death because of the caps they wear. You think a stagnant economy is “booming” and a booming economy is “dangerously overheating”. You call a man a “con man” because he is dedicated to his country and continue to promote the biggest scam every played on the American people, the “Russian collusion” scam, which did enormous and possibly irreparable damage to the entire nation. You believe Hillary OBLITERATED 33,000 emails under subpoena because they were about “weddings, funerals and yoga”. You believe proven liars like Schiff, Schumer and Pelosi. The list of egregious examples of your terrible judgment (or clinging to known lies) is practically endless.
Don’t try to tell anyone what a “conservative” is. You don’t even know what the truth is.
Meanwhile, real killers tweet about killing people…they do…and twitter can only illegally censor Republicans because it helps the party they paid to get into office and line their pockets.
There is no question that this is leftist censorship. Twitter allows leftist liars to lie about anything they wish but pretend to ban conservatives for “misinformation”. Twitter is in the misinformation business because that is all they will allow. The left fears the truth. They fear honesty. They fear patriotism. They fear fair elections. They fear the Constitution.
It’s a matter of reasonable social media platform owners taking back their free soapbox from someone who spreads COVID disinformation that can kill people.
Not all opinions are equal, helpful, or harmless. Those who own a soapbox have both the right and a responsibility to decide who may freely use it.
“It’s a matter of reasonable social media platform owners taking back their free soapbox from someone who spreads COVID disinformation that can kill people.” Again, you don’t know what she posted, so how can you deem it “disinformation”? Hell, leftist propaganda outlets still allow the lies that HCQ was harmful and ineffective to be posted and block anything that shows the vaccines are not really protecting people anymore. You can also still find the Democrat lying idiots that were denouncing the vaccines simply because the crybabies didn’t like Trump developing them but will ban someone for questioning the efficacy of the vaccines against new variants.
It is nothing but totalitarian, fascist censorship. PERIOD.
It’s a case of social media platform owners exercising control over THEIR PROPERTY, the free use of which is extended to members of the public ON THE CONDITION that they agree to and abide by the TERMS OF SERVICE published in their TWITTER USER AGREEMENT.
https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/legal-twitter/site-assets/privacy-policy-new/Privacy-Policy-Terms-of-Service_EN.pdf
In Twitter’s view, Greene’s use of her personal account was making the platform complicit in the spread of lies and disinformation that they consider detrimental to the public’s health and safety.
As the platform owners, that’s their call, and nobody else’s.
What did she post that was disinformation? Can you provide anything she posted?
I know she posted data from our tax payer funded CDC is it the CDC that is releasing to the public lies disinformation that is detrimental to public health?
You repeat slurs with zero context.
She asked a fellow congresswoman to apologize for spreading lies about the governor of Florida.
He had not disappeared he was with his wife who is being treated for breast cancer.
Twitter also shadow banned AOCs Republican opponent how much in like /kind political donations is that worth?
A bit more than a few Russian memes?(never proven)
Greene:
“The FDA should not approve the covid vaccines. There are too many reports of infection & spread of #COVID19 among vaccinated people. These vaccines are failing & do not reduce the spread of the virus & neither do masks. Vaccine mandates & passports violate individual freedoms.”
“5,946 reported deaths after taking the #COVID19 vaccine. The vaccine is NOT FDA approved. 33,631,656 Americans SURVIVED covid. But Biden & the Dems are coming to your front door to force you to take the vax, schools say your healthy kids need it, and you still think your free?”
At least she found common ground on COVID with the Nation of Islam:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211108181241/https://twitter.com/mtgreenee
Greg now you come out of the closet as an islamphobe? Well it was just bound to happen with your lock step love of Communist China and their genocide of muslims.
At least she listed something true about Covid deaths.
Every citizen has the right to NOT take the vaccine, with good reason.
Why are you intentionally distorting the relationship between the vax and covid deaths? It’s not “cause/effect”
Did you get more than an 8th grade education from the Episcopalians?
Bet you failed rhetoric.
“As the platform owners, that’s their call, and nobody else’s.”
In a fascist state, maybe.
But here? No.
They lose their right to “make a call” when they accept section 230 protections.
Stop being a coward and admit it.
We remind anyone reading this blog what a dumb*ss you are, every day. Just go onto twitter and debate MTG, like a free citizen in a free country.
You Marxist scum.
“It’s a case of social media platform owners exercising control over THEIR PROPERTY” That’s not the part I have a problem with. I have a problem with their censorship. They censor conservative views, not “disinformation”. They don’t apply their “rules” evenly.
Since you don’t know what she posted, you simply trust Twitter’s judgement, and that judgement is suspect.
Who knows more about heart health; the American Heart Association or some Twitter busybody slapping warnings on articles?
https://flagandcross.com/twitter-slaps-american-heart-association-article-on-mrna-vaccines-with-warning-label/
Apparently, advocating for and promoting burning down police precincts does not violate Twitter’s lofty standards.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pro-antifa-defund-the-police-group-appears-to-suggest-burning-down-police-precincts
Twitter suspends accounts because they dared to make fun of CNN twerp
https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/07/mike-davis-brian-stelter-cnn-twitter-will-upton-pulp-fiction-gimp/?fbclid=IwAR0HLDHt1eG__cc5QYeUVlwKBsRZa57mmtXNF5gJBWIcAdHJVv13kSn6jJQ
The tolerant, loving left erupt in racism at Tim Scott’s response to idiot Biden’s speech of lies. Twitter lets it go.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/uncle-tim-slur-tim-scott-trends-twitter-biden-rebuttal
The videos showing CNN’s propaganda bias IN THEIR OWN WORDS which got O’Keefe banned from Twitter. Why would Big Tech want to suppress the truth about the liberal media?
New DCCC chief calls for every police precinct to be burned if she is killed; allowed on Twitter
https://www.dailywire.com/news/burn-every-cop-precinct-to-the-ground-new-dccc-cto-tweeted-violent-anti-police-rhetoric
Twitter suspends Project Veritas and James O’Keefe’s accounts but not that of Hannah-Jones
“1619” author doxes another journalist, doesn’t get kicked off Twitter or NYT
https://www.patriotproject.com/1619-project-creator-doxes-reporter-scrubs-twitter-history-backlash/
This is just a few of the examples of bias I have. I think, for instance, calling for people to burn down police precincts might endanger lives more acutely (has, in fact, resulted in death and destruction) than an opinion about a vaccine.
Why don’t they just openly call it what it is: censorship of conservative views so the far leftist views will look valid in the vacuum?
I’m sure you must believe that Flag & Cross promotes patriotism, the teachings of Jesus, and traditional conservative American values.
If you knew anything about traditional conservative values we might know what you were babbling on about.
Try going into the philosophers that the founders read.
Rousseau believed in the idea that a government being formed needs consent from the governed in order to be successful. This concept became the foundation in our founding documents.
Another was Charles-Louis La Brède et de Montesquieu his book introduced the idea of the “separation of powers” to avoid tyranny and promote liberty and justice.
Locke and a few others also had great influence.
Your education or lack there of shines bright on your ignorance, and the ignorance of marxist leaning politicians with the retarded use of the term Democracy while describing our government, like socialism and communism a pure democracy never works.
Who are you trying to convince?
I see the “Vietnam Vet Boomer I’m-a-real-conservative-so-I-support-godless-marxism” persona using greg’s account is back.
Maybe I’m not your sort of cartoon American.
You’re most likely not an American at all.
Maybe you should watch this video and see what you’re part of:
The State is your God and you’re only natural aim in all of this is to bring about death and destruction.
We Americans stopped you Communists before. We’ll do so again.
Greg you have been and always will be Greggie the rock. Die hard anti-american, who thinks big daddy government owes everyone a living except those that work hard and just want to be left alone by this invasive nosey spying regime.
The FA fam knows of your ignorance and how you only repeat the latest mass hysteria the mockingbird media is pushing. Since the cable news is failing the government turns to big tech to supress free speech, they comply. Have you seen twitter stock? They are failing as well. Feb they were at 77 a share, today 43 a share.
Don’t forget Greggie Goebbels and Baghdad Greg.
Maybe you could point out the part of Greene’s post that was false?
What kind of values does a racist rapist that sells out his nation, forces his daughter shower with him, has a crack-head, whore-mongering son who also sells government influence express? Are those Democrat values?
The violence of the Left is very clearly on display.
You can’t silence people and label their speech “disinformation.”
That’s literally tyranny.
Meanwhile, the Left gets to call for the killing of Conservatives without any action by twitter.
Hope the civil war you’ve started is worth it. The payouts in Hell are a bit different than those in Heaven, as most Leftists are likely to find out.
A hollow victory on MTG is going to cost them….eternally.
You CAN decide what are dangerous lies, and refuse to let people who are telling them continue to use your soapbox and megaphone. They can start their civil wars using their own soapbox.
I’ve had it with people who would deliberately break what they cannot themselves make better.
So the “soapbox” if you will, which has to allow for Constitutional free speech to get the 230 protections, is allowed to be nothing more than a Leftwing propaganda rag?
No.
Free speech ensures one political party, movement, ideology, or religion doesn’t get to label it’s opponent’s comments as “dangerous lies” and then start with censoring them…ending with a genocide.
You’re wrong to censor MTG, Trump, and anyone. Dead wrong.
The soapbox is simply the public forum. Twitter is offering a way to access it, but is not the soapbox itself. If it were, it would be a publisher.
Only fearful ideologues who know their ideology doesn’t hold up to logic have need of silencing their political opponents.
They know they will lose in healthy debate and publicc discourse.
Shame on them. Labeling their opponents as -insert dehumanizing term here- and labeling their speech as “dangerous lies” is what every genocidal totalitarian regime has down in history.
The actions of the rabid Leftwing Cult and their unconstitutional ideas have created a civil war as they perpetrate their hate.
They started this, and continue to use and promote violence against the majority of Americans who simple do not share their religion.
“You CAN decide what are dangerous lies, and refuse to let people who are telling them continue to use your soapbox and megaphone. ” Explain how pointing out that the vaccines actually DO pose a health risk for some people while providing very limited protections against variants poses a danger to anyone’s life?
Why doesn’t Twitter ban reporting of Gen. Austin coming down with COVID? That questions the efficacy of the vaccines.
“Not all opinions are equal, helpful, or harmless.”
But all are free, and you can’t silence them. Especially not on a government subsidized application merely making money off the public forum, and not the public forum itself.
You really are a totalitarian, aren’t you.
‘What qualifies me? A conservative background and decades of observation. The GOP has gone off the conservative rails.’
Sorry greg, not sorry. You have yet to demonstrate any indication that you have an iota of conservative leanings or beliefs. The new year is early but this may be the best laugh of the year. One can not have a conservative background and support an illegitimate president.
If it is your contention that a conservative background lent itself to a progressive leftist ideology, that flies in the face of reason.
There is zero evidence of a conservative background on your part, game over…
If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
Winston Churchill
There’s zero evidence that Winston Churchill ever made such a statement.
Ok.
I’m saying it, then:
“If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.”
— Nathan Blue
“There’s zero evidence that Winston Churchill ever made such a statement.” Yes there is. Twitter hasn’t banned it.
I wonder what the 1963 Berkeley Free Speech movement would have thought about this.
T-mobile cellular phone “service” now censoring private text messages containing links to Gateway Pundit.
The Pundit is getting the Alex Jones treatment.
Why isn’t lying, misinformed, disinforming Rachael Maddow banned?