Reactivated Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to test 'every limit of free speech' on Twitter

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Less than one year after Twitter "permanently suspended" Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account from its platform for violating its company policy on COVID-19 misinformation, the Georgia Republican returned on Monday to the site she'd once blasted as "an enemy to America." Greene's account is a beneficiary of new owner Elon Musk's rolling effort to reactivate predominantly far right-wing figures previously barred under Twitter's earlier leadership, including former President Donald Trump.

In a more than hour-long broadcast from her newly resurrected personal account (her official congressional account, @RepMTG, has remained active since her suspension) Greene vowed to spend her time "testing every limit of free speech that I have," asking at one point "why does it take a billionaire buying Twitter to restore people's freedom of speech?"

Greene's personal account was banned in early 2022, following several temporary suspensions for election and COVID-misinformation messages. While Twitter did not give an official reason for her permanent suspension at the time, Greene later claimed it was the result of her having tweeted statistics from the Department of Health and Human Services open-submission Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.

In spite of her promise to test the limits of free speech, Greene's return to Twitter on Monday has largely consisted of retweets of her initial announcement video, and fundraising appeals she claimed would make up for lost income she was unable to solicit while her non-congressional account was banned.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/reactivated-marjorie-taylor-greene-vows-175306424.html

Just don't go posting naked pictures of yourself MTG

[In It to Win It]

1. No Truth Social for her

[TheBlackAdder]

23. Limit Testing -- Like all of the inputs she tested during her adulterous tantic sex sessions.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Lost income?? Just a Shitstain grifter.

[Kittycatkat]

3. Is there anything Marjorie Traitor-Trash Greene can do that would shock us?

Methinks not!

[tinrobot]

4. People like her will only hasten Twitter's demise.

[marmar]

5. Carnival barker

[sheshe2]

6. Well if she starts up with death threats...

Well if she starts up with death threats or any other incendiary language to incite violence then we can report her. Not to twitter...We can call the FBI.

[Prairie_Seagull]

7. Free speech does not equal dangerous speech. Right?

The watchers need to be watching.

[Caliman73]

24. We should not validate her stupid framing of the situation.

There is NO Free Speech issue. She was posting on a PRIVATE network whose owners had rules that she had to follow to maintain her ability to use that PRIVATE space. Same as here at DU. If I start to post horrible things about the Democratic Party or start to harass other members, I should expect to be warned, then eventually kicked off the site. It is MY responsibility to read the TOS and abide by them.

Free Speech is a contract that exists ONLY between the government and the people. You can say whatever the fuck you want in your home but you come to my house, and I can kick your ass out if you say something I don't like.

Greene lies about Free Speech all the time. I wonder if I go to her house, stand on the curb, and call her a disgusting piece of shit for hours on end, if she would defend my "free speech" right to do that. She would call the police and try to have me removed. She and other Conservatives are liars. They don't give a shit about Free Speech. They only care about amplifying their own speech.

We should not use her framing on this issue.

When we are talking about actual Free Speech, the "dangerous" part is a gray area. I could say, in the public square, say that Ivermectin and Chloroquine are effective for COVID-19 without fear of police coming to get me. I would consider that "dangerous speech" but unfortunately, that is protected speech. I cannot directly incite violence or make specific actionable threats against people. The threshold is high.

[Prairie_Seagull]

26. Absolutely agree that definitially/Legally what is needed is better understanding of what is

dangerous speech. is it some unwritten rule? Or does it more likely reside all over the place SC, State SC's... so that nobody really knows it's scope.

[Caliman73]

28. It is likely still being defined.

Like I said, what you and I might consider dangerous speech, may not be the accepted legal conceptualization of dangerous speech.

Yelling fire in a crowded theater is often a "standard" by which people talk about limits to Free Speech. Obviously, there is context in that statement. If I yell "FIRE" and in fact, the theater is on fire but no one else had noticed, then I likely just saved a bunch of people's lives, even if some are hurt on the way out by the crowd rushing past them. As we stand there watching the theater consumed in flames, people might turn to me and say, "Thanks for warning us". If I yell FIRE as a prank, when there is no actual danger, then I by my speech, have created that dangerous situation, in which people panic and start running, and a child, or elderly person is trampled and seriously injured or killed. I am responsible because I am the proximal cause of that danger.

The proximity of the speech to the "danger" is usually examined in order to determine culpability. If a celebrity or politician says, "You know, I just don't like or trust Redheads, there is something sinister about them" and some unstable fan goes out and shoots a random redhead, certainly the speaker's words may have influenced the fan's actions, but it would be highly unlikely that there would be any kind of legal penalty for the speaker. The statement was stupid and ignorant, but there was no specific threat or incitement. Now, I that celebrity/politician says, "I hate the damn redhead Carrot Top. He's playing at the Ice House in Vegas tonight, I need someone to get rid of him". I want him to cease to be". Someone goes out and kills Carrot Top, well now there is a case that your desire and demand for action was the proximal cause of your fan going out and harming Carrot Top.

It isn't unwritten per se, but it exists in context and sometimes context is tricky.

[Prairie_Seagull]

29. Thanks for your sage answers,

and I absolutely agree, redheads can be dangerous. haha

[Caliman73]

30. Gingers have Souls!

[golden-ret]

27. Exactly!

The first amendment should NOT protect hate speech. This is why I wish I could live in Canada. People like Greene can’t hide behind any first amendment crap.

[Nevilledog]

8. She was never *off* Twitter. Just her personal account was suspended, not her official one

[OldBaldy1701E]

32. Which is why the claim of 'lost income' is so hysterical.

Too bad it will work on those who cannot walk and chew gum at the same time.

[jeffreyi]

9. She does not understand the legalities of free speech.

Or she does, and is just plain evil.

[ellie]

10. Me too!

Can't wait to see how far I can take free speech before I am banned.

[Caliman73]

25. The moment you criticize Musk, you would be gone.

Nothing says "free speech" warrior like banning everyone who criticizes you. Right?

[3catwoman3]

11. She tests every limit of decency every time...

...she opens her stupid yap.

[Trenzalore]

12. She needs to be the face of the Republican Party

If democrats don't make her the face of the Republican congress they are engaged in malpractice.

[tishaLA]

13. Go right ahead, Marge.

It's not like voters didn't say "enough repub extremism" loudly enough during the midterms, huh? If she makes herself a spectacle, it's going to be an ongoing car crash for her party.

[Emrys]

14. So are we to assume that her revolting, idiotic persona in Congress is actually her self-censored?

Because she's had her official Twitter account all along, and the crap she comes out with on a regular basis as a House member is pretty damned whackaloon as it is.

[DBoon]

15. Is she doing her own version of "two girls one cup"?

or maybe goatse.cx?

Great classics of free speech!

[2naSalit]

16. Maybe...

Karma will pay her a visit.

[Blue Owl]

17. Roid rage tweeting here we come

Hopefully she’ll blow a gasket and put herself out of her own self-inflicted misery

[onethatcares]

18. read on another site

"If it wasn't for freedom of speech, we wouldn't know who the idiots are" by Mike the sign guy

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. True that

[VGNonly]

19. Can I have a jewish space laser

with a peach tree dish with gazpacho?

[SouthernDem4ever]

21. You mean she is going to test the limits on free "hate" speech

and "free criminal speech" and "free disinformation speech" etc

[The Wizard]

22. Go to her Twitter feed and

ask bout her connection to the banjo player from the film "Deliverance."

[Ziggysmom]

33. I see a striking resemblance! Two slack jawed GQP yokels here, too.

[ificandream]

31. Hey, Horse Face, why don't you go groom some horses.

[Martin68]

34. "Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to test 'every limit of free speech' on Twitter."

I don't doubt it. She has proven to be eminently qualified to achieve that goal.

[republianmushroom]

35. It wasn't free speech that was her problems is was rules.

[allegorical oracle]

36. She and Musk deserve each other...they're both loony. nt

[Initech]

37. Another MAGA shithead I was extremely quick to block.