On Sunday (Jan. 17), Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (D-Ga.) announced that her personal account had been suspended from Twitter.
Greene, a newly elected congresswoman from Georgia, said in a statement Sunday that the San Francisco-based company claimed her posts could lead to “a risk of violence,” her office said.
Green said in a statement that Twitter decided to suspend my personal account without explanation after the Silicon Valley Cartel launched a multi-line attack to curb free speech in the United States by purging the accounts of President Trump and untold numbers of conservatives.
“The monopolistic clamping down on American political speech by some large high-tech companies has gone out of hand.” She said.
Green said, “If conservatives dare to present a political viewpoint that is not endorsed by the Internet police, they are falsely charged with ‘inciting violence’ simply for having a conservative viewpoint …… Censorship must stop.”
Green said the content of his own tweet-tagged post was a claim that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his chief operating officer, Gabriel Sterling, were responsible for alleged voter fraud in the state’s Nov. 3 (presidential election) as well as the Jan. 5 Senate runoff election.
At press time, Twitter officials did not respond to Epoch Times’ request for comment.
At around 6:30 p.m. EST on Jan. 8, Twitter announced that it had permanently frozen Trump’s personal account labeled as the 45th president of the United States.
Subsequently, Google and Apple have taken down Parler, a social media platform popular with Trump supporters, from their respective App stores, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) has suspended its service for Parler. Amazon said the platform (Parler) failed to review users’ content and claimed that certain users posed a threat of violence.
Parler then filed a lawsuit demanding that AWS restore its service, while accusing AWS practices of alleged monopolization. The lawsuit notes that Twitter is a major customer of AWS.
In a statement, Greene called on Congress to protect free speech on the social media platform.
“Americans are being denied the right to have their voices heard by the members of Congress they elect.” She said, “With large technology companies muting them, they (their voices) can barely be heard. Censorship must stop.”
After President Trump’s personal account was permanently canceled by Twitter, some world leaders decried the immense power of Silicon Valley in controlling political discourse and were particularly outraged that the U.S. president was banned. Glenn Greenwald, an American journalist and founder and editor of The Intercept, said, “German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Angela Merkel), several French ministers, and especially Mexican President Andrés López Obrador (Andrés Manuel López Obrador), all condemned the tech monopoly’s gagging of Trump and other acts of censorship on the grounds that it sees itself as a ‘one-world media force.'”
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