Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Thursday that she would like to invite Elon Musk to Capitol Hill following his Twitter takeover – and gather a group of “brilliant” people who have been banned from the network to have a chat with him.
“I don’t know Mr. Musk, but I invite him to speak to me in Washington, DC. I’d love to put together a roundtable of all the most brilliant people who have been unjustly banned from Twitter that he can see for himself the urgent need to make them right,” Greene told reporters at a news conference outside the Capitol. “Which we all hope he will, since he has stated that he believes in free speech.
Greene told the crowd, “We don’t need to be told what we can and can’t say online from weirdos in San Francisco or anywhere else.”
She told that she didn’t officially ask Musk, but did name some of her ideal attendees.
“There would be a lot of people I would like to invite to this round table. I see someone standing right there behind you – Milo Yiannopoulus – I think he would be a great person to have there,” she said.
Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter in 2016 for his involvement in the racist and targeted abuse of black comedian Leslie Jones.
“Alex Jones would be a different person,” Greene continued.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Thursday that she would like to invite Elon Musk to Capitol Hill following his Twitter takeover – and gather a group of “brilliant” people who have been banned from the network to have a chat with him
“I see someone standing right there behind you – Milo Yiannopoulus – I think he would be a great person to have there,” she told , suggesting that Yiannopoulus, who was banned from Twitter in 2016 who would belong to who she would be. Invite d to a meeting with Elon Musk
MP Marjorie Taylor Greene said she was “cautiously optimistic about the prospects for Twitter after Elon Musk (pictured) takes over”.
Jones was banned from Twitter in 2018, with the company saying he engaged in “abusive behavior.”
He is widely known as a right-wing conspiracy theorist.
“We’re going to put together a great list of people who have been almost expunged from public life because of this kind of censorship, and I think Elon Musk will enjoy speaking to them,” Greene said.
Greene’s personal Twitter account was suspended in January after she repeatedly posted content that violated the company’s COVID-19 misinformation policy.
She still has access to her congressional account.
Greene told reporters Thursday she wanted her private Twitter account restored.
“On my Congressional Twitter account, all of us here are not allowed to talk about our campaigns or ask for money to, for example, defend ourselves in court against political attacks and the like. That’s why it’s important for me to have my personal Twitter account,” she explained.
“I’m cautiously optimistic about the prospects for Twitter after Elon Musk takes over,” she also said.
Greene’s primary reason for hosting a press conference was to promote a law — the 21st Century Free Speech Act — that she is introducing with Senator Bill Hagerty, who is supporting the same bill in the upper chamber.
The bill would remove Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and replace it with “reasonable, non-discriminatory access to online communications platforms” that would treat so-called big tech as a “common carrier,” much like an airline or FedEx, Greene called it.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also said she would invite Infowars’ Alex Jones, who was banned from Twitter in 2018, to meet with Elon Musk via the social media network for a panel discussion in the US Capitol
Milo Yiannopoulos (right) follows Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (center) as she walks back into the Capitol after her Thursday afternoon news conference. Greene called Yiannopoulos one of the “brilliant” people banned from Twitter who she would love to meet with Elon Musk
Reporters gather Thursday afternoon outside the US Capitol Building for a news conference with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was due to announce legislation she is proposing to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
Greene said illegal activities like child trafficking would remain unlawful – but suggested it would become harder for tech companies to patrol misinformation.
“I don’t believe in all this misinformation that the Democrats are trying to foist on people,” she said, adding that it was “their label for silencing free speech.”
“For example, the ability for parents to say I want to protect my daughters in their bathrooms and when playing sports – that can be viewed as hate speech or misinformation, or the ability for people to say – I don’t want the government to force me to have one.” to take vaccine,” Greene said. “I want to be in full control of my own health and choose whether to use my own natural immunity against the biological weapon of COVID-19.”
“People who said things like that were permanently banned from social media,” she noted.
She said anti-trans and anti-vax opinions are not “misinformation.”
“These are people expressing their own views, their own opinions and that is their freedom of expression and they have the right to make those decisions and Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, no other big tech company has the right to take them down because they say things like that. ‘ said Greene.