Twitter has restricted the congressional account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after she shared a notice for an upcoming rally, called the “Trans Day of Vengeance.”
On her personal Twitter account, Greene
shared a screenshot that showed how she is being banned for seven days for having violated Twitter’s rules on “
violent speech.”
The move to restrict Greene’s congressional account came after she shared an image of a poster of the upcoming rally. In the same post, shared on Tuesday, Greene alleged that Antifa was organizing the “Trans Day of Vengeance” event. Twitter subsequently locked Greene out of her account on the condition that she deleted her offending tweet.
The online kerfuffle comes a day after six people, three of whom were 9-year-old children,
died in a shooting at a Christian school in Nashville.
The suspect, who was killed during the incident on Monday, had identified as transgender.
When her congressional account was restored, Greene issued another post from the account. “My Congressional Twitter account was suspended today,” the post said. “@elonmusk, how is it ‘violent speech’ to expose the ‘Trans Day of Vengence’ [sic] a day after a mass murder committed by a transgender shooter? And to call on the DOJ to investigate it? I condemned the incitement to violence & demanded a federal law enforcement investigation in the Tweet.”
The post had since been deleted because it featured the poster of the upcoming rally again. Following that post, Greene’s congressional account was suspended for seven days.
Twitter’s head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, said on Twitter that the company was removing images of the poster over concerns it could incite violence.
“We had to automatically sweep our platform and remove >5000 tweets /retweets of this [‘Trans Day of Vengeance’] poster,” Irwin
wrote. “We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. ‘Vengeance’ does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok.”
Irwin
also wrote that the platform has “not applied any strikes to anyone” and had “[j]ust restricted the media.”
“This is a lie,” Greene
responded from her personal account. “My Congressional account was suspended for 7 days for exposing Antifa, who are organizing a call for violence called ‘Trans Day of Vengeance.’ The day after the mass murder of children by a trans shooter. Restore my account immediately.”
Roughly an hour prior, Greene also
posted on her personal account: “In the wake of a transgender shooter targeting a Christian school and murdering kids, every American should know the threat of Antifa driven trans-terrorism. Twitter should not whitewash the incitement of politically motivated violence.”
The “Trans Day of Vengeance,” according to the poster that Greene shared, is scheduled for April 1. The group that appears to be organizing the event, Our Rights DC, which has 1,288 followers as of the time of writing,
describes itself on Twitter as an “autonomous community sustaining direct action to demand accountability for injustice.”
Meanwhile, a Twitter user questioned Irwin’s decision of the timing to take down the offending poster of the upcoming rally.
“I find it more than convenient @ellagirwin that you waited until AFTER the Tennessee shooting to take down a graphic that was posted before the shooting and was being shared primarily detractors to show that the Woke/Trans movement is inherently and outwardly violent,”
wrote Twitter user @UnWokablePod.
Irwin
responded: “The graphic was reported by a high number of users across our platform yesterday and yes, I’m sure the timing of that was due to heightened sensitivity to the language, given the tragic events in Nashville. We always evaluate tweets driving a sudden spike in user complaints.”
“Did you ever stop to think that the ‘complaints’ are coming from the ’Trans Day Of Vengeance' supporters who didn’t want a living record of their calls for violence and vengeance after the Tennessee shooting?” the user
noted. “You have to use some common sense here @ellagirwin @elonmusk.”
“In other words, a poster calling for vengeance by the trans community wasn’t a problem until a trans person acted out in vengeance,” another user, @AreYaMadYet,
wrote. “Murdering 9 yr old children. THEN the poster became a problem.”
