Greene cites her Twitter ban in opposing TikTok bill

The Hill ^ | 03/13/2024 | JULIA SHAPERO

[ChicagoConservative27]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) cited her previous ban on Twitter, the platform now known as X, in opposing legislation that could ban TikTok on Wednesday.

“I rise today as the only member of Congress that has ever been banned by social media,” Greene said on the House floor, as the lower chamber prepared to vote on the bill.

“Twitter banned me, banned my personal account on which I was campaigning for Congress, raising money and using my free speech to inform the voters in my district they can vote for me,” she continued. “This was not by a company owned by China. This was by American-owned Twitter.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

Things that make you go hmmm

[mewzilla]

I read the bill.

It isn’t aimed at the ChiComs.

[mewzilla]

Q for Congress: If you’re so concerned about Tik Tok, why are you OK with the ChiComs controlling Anerica’s ports...?

Note to MTG: That goes for you, too, sweetie.

[nwrep]

Not very bright. The days of intellectual conservatives like WFB, Safire, Friedman, are long gone.

[mewzilla]

America’s...

Rush Limbaugh is spinning.

[1Old Pro]

she continued. “This was not by a company owned by China. This was by American-owned Twitter.”

Answers itself

[Spok]

Maybe Marjie needs to be reminded that it’s not about her.

[escapefromboston]

What’s on tik tok that’s so much worse than YouTube , Twitter , Instagram ? I went on it one time and it was kids dancing

[delchiante]

Yeah.

She should have created her own social media platform so she could speak freely, like Trump did

[thegagline]

The anti-TikTok movement is being funded by Facebbok and Google.

[1Old Pro]

She should have created her own social media platform so she could speak freely, like Trump did

She should work on legislation to hold a company like Twitter responsible it that is an issue. She's in Congress. She's in the majority.

[delchiante]

The Swamp is the majority in the House..

[Bratch]

Which might explain why the Deep State is going after Tik-Tok.

Instead of a China-controlled entity, the app will instead be overseen by the CIA Americans. 🙄

[wildcard_redneck]

“Maybe Marjie needs to be reminded that it’s not about her.”

Maybe some idiots need to be reminded that Russia Ukraine is a sideshow that only benefits the ChiComs but there are so many stupid people of on FR that buy the propaganda. China should just prevent its use in the U.S. and let the U.S. politicians face the wrath of the brain dead youth.

[Bratch]

Perspective.

*****

HR7521 – The TikTok Ban Law (as written) is NOT About Banning TikTok, It’s About Information Control – pdf Included

March 12, 2024 | Sundance | 152 Comments

I swear by all that I know to be righteous and accurate, the combined willpower of the UniParty in Washington DC is not targeting TikTok from the perspective of concern over data collection.  Instead, the DC system -which is to say the USIC- is using the auspices of TikTok to expand the reach of government censorship and control information.

This is a domestic information space battle, using the guise of TikTok as a baseline for justification.  How do we know? You only need to look at the mechanism of the law as it is written, the compliance section, and the definitions they are using to see they are not targeting data collection.  [pdf of HR7521 HERE]

If TikTok data collection was the issue, the law would be structured to ban foreign data collection.  That’s not what this is.  This is a law written to give the Executive Branch the power to define any platform as “foreign owned” by the service provider (even if domestic) and the substance of the content contained and/or distributed.  This has to be stopped.

[Source pdf, Page 8 – HR7521]

Read the law as written through the prism of “Information Control,” not the prism of data collection.  The law is designed to control information, not data collection.

As readers are well aware, the USIC is in alignment (I would say control) with almost all U.S-based social media platforms.  This is why/how DHS is operating in synergy with those same systems.  This is also the motive behind the mis-dis-mal-information definitions.  Ultimately, if you stand back and look at what is being done, you see the concern of the U.S. government is not data collection, its information control.

The TikTok ban, authorized by a duplicious Legislative branch, is expanding the ability of the Executive branch to control information.  Just as The Patriot Act was not about targeting terrorism, but really about domestic surveillance; so too is the TikTok ban not about foreign data collection, it’s about information control.

Again, read the law as written and you can clearly see this is a law created to authorize the agencies of the government to control information.  Silence is the same as consent in the face of oppression.  Do not be silent.

[1Old Pro]

This isn’t the reason she cited for her vote. She mentions that she was banned by Twitter.

[Moorings]

I am not defending Tik Tok. I believe that they are a Chinese military/government asset.

However, I can see liberals (democrats and RINOs) using this as a basis for banning platforms they don't like - Twitter, Truth Social e.t.c. for "disinformation", that is news or opinions they do not approve of.

For example, you post opinions that faggotry, pedophilia, and Tranny perversions should not be promoted to young kids in schools? You are a "hater", the platform is allowing "hate speech", and therefore it should be banned.

[TomServo]

“I rise today as the only member of Congress that has ever been banned by social media,”

That's 'cause you're a grandstanding nutcase.

[P-Marlowe]

RUMBLE is next.

[DLfromthedesert]

Those old RINOs?/s