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Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account

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Re: Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account

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Post by yesdocs »

Veen wrote: post #27

Elected officials shouldn't have to rely on Twitter or other social media platforms to communicate with their constituencies. This woman seems like a loon to me, but she's a loon with a democratic mandate. If social media is going to be the default communication medium, then perhaps it needs regulation to clarify its relationship with elected officials.

Television has been the default communication mechanism for many years, and as such is already regulated. I believe the problem with TV is that you cannot lie in political advertising, which is probably why MTG was not using that platform. This is an old and tired argument, dismissed long ago to avoid propaganda and public risks. MTG has not been banned from TV, she has all the Democratic access she needs.

Re: Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account

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Post by mark_l_watson »

tjr225 wrote: post #65
mark_l_watson wrote: post #54

No matter what their politics are, I would hope that all reasonable people can condemn cancel culture, regardless of the political alignment of the person being cancelled. I get a lot of value from Twitter because I follow a few awesomely interesting people, but I could probably get the same effect by bookmarking their blogs. People should have access to all information, and filter for themselves what is trash. I don…

Marjorie Taylor Greene is entitled to create her own Twitter. Not to use someone else’s Twitter.

I don’t disagree with you, I am just ruminating about making a personal decision to stop using Twitter. I did that years ago for Facebook (now, less than ten minutes a month in FB).

I am having some difficulty deciding whether I think the major Platforms should be public regulated services or the property of companies that can do anything they want to with their property. My opinion changes on this…

Re: Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account

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Post by boardwaalk »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #5
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #2

I don’t care what she said, it is not the job of private businesses to censor elected officials. And yes, I know they can but that does not mean they should .

Also Twitter has now demonstrated they are completely ignorant to the Streisand Effect. This won’t change minds. This will only harden viewpoints and invite political and regulatory scrutiny.

I’m not sure Streisand effect applies here. Anyone roughly aware of American politics knows MTG’s looniness. And Twitter has already banned DJT which was a bigger thing. This isn’t going to bring attention where there wasn’t any already.

Re: Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account

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Post by short12 »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #5
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #2

I don’t care what she said, it is not the job of private businesses to censor elected officials. And yes, I know they can but that does not mean they should .

Also Twitter has now demonstrated they are completely ignorant to the Streisand Effect. This won’t change minds. This will only harden viewpoints and invite political and regulatory scrutiny.

Twitter doesn't need to care about the Streisand effect. The goal was to remove her from being their problem. Mission accomplished

Let her go elsewhere

Re: Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account

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Post by version_five »

Veen wrote: post #27

Elected officials shouldn't have to rely on Twitter or other social media platforms to communicate with their constituencies. This woman seems like a loon to me, but she's a loon with a democratic mandate. If social media is going to be the default communication medium, then perhaps it needs regulation to clarify its relationship with elected officials.

I'd also say constituents shouldn't have to rely on for-profit (and in this case objectively harmful to society) advertising platforms in order to hear from elected officials or government. Where I am, Twitter seems to have become the default channel for many kinds of communication, and those of us who don't use it are excluded.

Re: Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account

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Post by phillipcarter »

adventured wrote: post #57
nojito wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

She made repetitive tweets that Omicron proves that vaccines don't work.

I'm 100% pro vaccine. I'd rather Twitter were destroyed for doing this than Greene were suspended. I'll happily deal with combating some misinformation, it's an opportunity that is critically important. People with anti vax beliefs don't magically stop existing just because you censor Greene; it hurts, it does not help to do that. Instead, more of them go underground, they vanish from the surface, you don't see them…

All I can say is that I wish you well in your efforts to convince antivax folks (and those who grift on that, like MTG) on taking the vaccine. Good luck.

Re: Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account

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Post by lbotos »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #54

No matter what their politics are, I would hope that all reasonable people can condemn cancel culture, regardless of the political alignment of the person being cancelled. I get a lot of value from Twitter because I follow a few awesomely interesting people, but I could probably get the same effect by bookmarking their blogs. People should have access to all information, and filter for themselves what is trash. I don…

I saw a recent meme that said "In the distant past we didn't have cancel culture, we had exile culture. You were just told to leave."

> People should have access to all information, and filter for themselves what is trash. I don’t want Twitter, news media, etc. filtering.

And people still do -- Marjorie can start a blog on a vps and I'm sure most providers would be reasonably okay with it, unless she became a DDoS target (possible).

If you are upset because the people that gave her that platform said "you are doing it wrong" this happens in the physical world too. If you show up to a sports arena (a place with a large group of people that are captive) and hang a sign in the stands with an "unacceptable" message, the arena will ask you to take it down or force you to.

Platforms have a brand, and they are filtering for their own brand reputation.

I hate that our web is more "centralized" but all of these actions are going to enable more decentralization to happen because of it.

Re: Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account

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Post by hairofadog »

psyc wrote: post #20
MattPalmer1086 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not censoring for a private company to refuse service to someone. I don't agree with government compelling speech for a private company either.

Why is Twitter the speaker when MTG tweets, but Verizon is not the speaker when I call my mom?

Your conversation with your mom is private communication, while your tweets are broadcast communications.
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