.HayesBrown: Marjorie Taylor Greene's days of trolling Twitter are over — but the GOP's are just beginning.
. I don’t think I’ve been proven wrong. Her statement in light of her permaban makes pretty clear that it’s unlikely her behavior will change in this case, either:"Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth. That’s fine, I’ll show America we don’t need them and it’s time to defeat our enemies."that allows them to add more fuel to their ever-burning fires of victimization. It’s simply not true that in striking them down, they become more powerful.
For proof of that, look no further than former President Donald Trump, who has spent the last year desperately trying to find a new addiction that gives him the same thrill as tweeting or a platform that puts more money in his pockets than Facebook. All he’s gotten in the process is aand an increased reliance on the media to spread his message via news releases. This can’t be encouraging for those who would follow in his footsteps.
Most Republicans know they’re more powerful with the reach social media provides than they are without it. As a result, they’ve so perfected the art of claiming martyrdom that actually becoming a martyr feels entirely too painful and unnecessary. Theis all an act for the fans as they continue to profit from the social media giants’ existences. Case in point is the @JudiciaryGOP account’s retreat from the blatant anti-vaccine stance it briefly flirted with contra Greene’s continued needling.
Instead of giving a masochist what they want, I think removing Greene from Twitter is a case of isolating what would otherwise be a bit of idiocy that would spread unchecked. Greene’s anti-vaccine tweets got her suspended. In her suspension, Twitter is slightly more inoculated against the abuse of facts she gleefully engaged in. It’s almost as though our discourse requires specialized antibodies to help fight off specific strains of viral falsehoods.
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