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 .
They suspended her personal account but her official congressional account is still live
Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account
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#12I 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 .
So you're saying no elected official should be bound by any laws, contracts or the terms of service of any organization, since doing so could be interpreted as "censorship?"
That if anyone else had said what Marjorie Taylor Greene had said, they would be subject to action by Twitter under its own stated policies, but the rules just shouldn't apply to her?
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#13I 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 .
No they definitely should, this is precisely their job. Why should public officials not be held to the same standards as individual citizens
Because they have the weight of people who elected them behind them. I don't understand how that's hard to understand.
It's the same reason why we care about murder of an elected official more than a murder of any other person.
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#14> Twitter suspended Ms. Greene’s account after she tweeted on Saturday, falsely, about “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths.” She included a misleading chart that pulled data from a government database of unverified raw data. Does anyone have a link to the tweet in question? It's interesting that it was labeled the chart as "misleading" as opposed to based on doctored data. It appears being factual is not…
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.
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#15I 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 .
Twitter has worldwide reach, so what if a citizen of another country is harmed due to misinformation posted by a US elected official? The citizens of that country didn't elect them.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
No they definitely should, this is precisely their job. Why should public officials not be held to the same standards as individual citizens
Because they have the weight of people who elected them behind them. I don't understand how that's hard to understand. It's the same reason why we care about murder of an elected official more than a murder of any other person.
So you think they should be held to higher standards than others then?
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#17> Twitter suspended Ms. Greene’s account after she tweeted on Saturday, falsely, about “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths.” She included a misleading chart that pulled data from a government database of unverified raw data. Does anyone have a link to the tweet in question? It's interesting that it was labeled the chart as "misleading" as opposed to based on doctored data. It appears being factual is not…
There's always C-SPAN. She hasn't been censored. She's only been denied a company's message amplification product. Goofball isn't a protected class, so Twitter is under no obligation to serve her.
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#18I 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 .
So you're saying no elected official should be bound by any laws, contracts or the terms of service of any organization, since doing so could be interpreted as "censorship?" That if anyone else had said what Marjorie Taylor Greene had said, they would be subject to action by Twitter under its own stated policies, but the rules just shouldn't apply to her?
Has Twitter applied their rules fairly and evenly, or even tried to do so?
Last I remember Maxine Waters was calling for public harassment without consequence.
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#19I 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 .
Why should Twitter give up their right to freedom of expression and freedom of association?
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#20> Twitter suspended Ms. Greene’s account after she tweeted on Saturday, falsely, about “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths.” She included a misleading chart that pulled data from a government database of unverified raw data. Does anyone have a link to the tweet in question? It's interesting that it was labeled the chart as "misleading" as opposed to based on doctored data. It appears being factual is not…
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?