Twitter banned Babylon Bee, a Twitter satire site, for publishing a tweet in violation of one of its precepts. The social media company indicated it would reinstate the site’s account if it deletes the tweet. The Bee is not expected to acquiesce.
Fox News reported that Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon “has no plans” to remove the tweet that Twitter flagged. This is what the report says:
Dillon was notified on Sunday night that The Babylon Bee was locked out of its Twitter account, which has 1.3 million followers, after it accused the satirical site of violating its rules against “hateful conduct” over a joke naming Biden administration official Dr. Rachel Levine the satire site’s “Man of the Year” for 2022. Levine, who is the U.S. assistant secretary of health, is transgender.
“We were doing a satirical take on USA Today recently naming Rachel Levine, a transgender individual, as one of their picks for women of the year. So we did a satirical take on this, and we named Rachel Levine as our man of the year,” Dillon said. “Twitter didn’t like that very much.”
Twitter cited its rules against “hateful conduct” that mandate that a user “may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.”
The tweet contains a picture of Levine with a headline that read: “The Babylon Bee’s Man of the Year is Rachel Levine.”
Dillon discussed the ongoing attacks against the site coming from the left, which has often labeled its satire as “misinformation” and sought to suppress it on various social media platforms.
“The initial attacks that we face from the media and Big Tech came from this angle that we’re spreading misinformation, and we need to be fact checked, and it was really weird how they were treating these jokes so seriously and giving them a truth rating,” Dillon told Fox News. “That didn’t really work out too well for them, they actually faced a lot of backlash for that, they were mocked very heavily, so there seems to be this shift in strategy. We’re now, instead of focusing on the misinformative nature of our satirical claims, they’re focusing more on the fact that we’re punching down without jokes or aiming at the wrong targets.”
The CEO continued, noting that these companies are “making judgment calls based on your motives and who you’re joking about, whether or not your jokes really count as jokes or if they count as hate speech.”
After transgender athlete Lia Thomas’ “victory” during the NCAA championship, another national debate over biological males competing in women’s sports erupted. Pundits, parents and athletes have all voiced opposition to the move to allow transgender women to compete against biological girls despite being labeled as racist bigots by those opposing the idea.
As I wrote previously, everyone knows this is wrong – including many of the people pushing it. However, it appears that people are too afraid to express their views in the past. The far-left wants to make us feel guilty by forcing our opinions on the matter. It seems like there’s an increase in the willingness to say that the Emperor has no clothes. Twitter targeted Babylon Bee because it is an internet site that mocks. EveryoneAll rights are reserved for Dillon. So far, Dillon isn’t backing down. Is this the beginning of an anti-gaslighting backlash?
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