Marjorie Taylor Greene, an anti-trans bigot and congresswoman from Georgia, despatched a hateful tweet on Monday, utilizing the deadname of U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health, Rachel Levine, and referring to gender-affirming surgical procedure utilizing a derogatory phrase. And whereas Twitter has affixed a warning on the tweet saying that it violated the social media firm’s guidelines, the tweet goes to stay on the positioning.

“This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about hateful conduct. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible,” the tweet now reads.

Twitter didn’t instantly reply to questions emailed in a single day asking for extra specifics concerning the resolution to go away the tweet in place. The firm beforehand suspended the Babylon Bee for deadnaming Levine and calling her “man of the year.”

Greene, who’s maybe finest recognized for spreading a conspiracy concept that wildfires are getting worse due to Jewish space lasers, tweeted a video of Levine, a 4 star admiral, who was on MSNBC just lately speaking concerning the judicial ruling that halted many civil rights protections for LGBTQ Americans in schools and workplaces final week.

“We really want to base our treatment to affirm and to support and empower these youth, not to limit their participation in activities… sports, and even their ability to get gender affirmation treatment in their state,” Levin mentioned within the clip shared by Greene.

Obviously it’s attainable to grasp why Twitter could wish to hold hateful content material from politicians up on the positioning, if solely within the title of presidency transparency. It’s vital to know the place your elected officers stand on points, even when they’re hateful, so that folks can see these hateful views for themselves and, hopefully, determine to not assist that candidate within the subsequent election.

But that perspective additionally must be weighed towards the rights of Twitter customers to really feel just like the platform they’re utilizing isn’t a cesspool of probably the most excessive far-right nutjobs on the planet. We’ve seen what that appears like within the type of Gab, and it’s not fairly. No cheap particular person desires to spend time on that web site—a disgusting digital landfill of racism, Holocaust denial, and misogyny.

And there’s additionally simply the precept of constantly implementing the foundations. President Donald Trump spouted extremely hateful and damaging issues on Twitter earlier than he was completely banned from the platform. Trump was banned for breaking Twitter’s guidelines, although all of his tweets had been clearly newsworthy merely as a result of he was probably the most highly effective particular person on the planet. And it’s not clear why some tweets would get you banned from the platform whereas others would merely get slapped with a warning label.

Of course, some folks would possibly argue that Trump was banned for making an attempt to incite an riot that may overthrow the federal government. But if that’s the usual, I’ve obtained some unhealthy information about Marjorie Taylor Greene. In truth, really bad news.