Twitter’s SHUT UP Button on The Babylon Bee was abused by Twitter.
Twitter’s latest episode in its ongoing campaign to silence The Bee involved reportedly locking its founder Adam Ford out of his account for simply trolling the platform with benign humor.
“Don’t reshare this or you’ll get suspended from Twitter,” Ford said according to a snapshot sharedBy The Bee CEO Seth DillonMarch 23, Ford’s tweet had a snapshot of a censored Bee story naming Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine the website’s “Man of the Year.” Talk about a glaring irony. But it didn’t matter.
Babylon Bee founder @Adam4dTwitter removed him from the site because of his hatredful actions. pic.twitter.com/QHDXBrAmws
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) March 23, 2022
Twitter already had an anti-Babylon Bee plot. Twitter just a day earlier locked Bee Editorin-Chief Kyle Mann‘s account for pointing out Twitter’s hypocrisy for censoring his website for calling transgender Levine a man while allowing the genocidal, communist Chinese government’s accountsTo continue posting.
Mann said, “Maybe they will let us back in our @TheBabylonBee twitter account if you throw a few thousand Uighurs into a concentration camp.” reportedly said.
To complete the censorship trilogy, Babylon Bee found its entire account locked for 12 hours March 20 for its article calling Levine its “Man of the Year.”
“Rachel’s message is to ‘be true to yourself,’ and we couldn’t agree more,” The Bee wrote. “This Man is breaking barriers and showing us all the true meaning of courage.” [Emphasis added.]
Levine is definitely “breaking barriers” … of biological fact!
Dillon tweeted that he received “notice that we’ve been locked out of our account for ‘hateful conduct.’”
In the screenshot, the message of the platform read: “You 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.”
Dillon was clapping back at Twitter froze his company’s account. “We’re not deleting anything,” he tweeted. “Truth is not hate speech. If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it.”
MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database has logged 14 cases of Big Tech censoring the satire site.
The Bee’s most outrageous case of Facebook fact-checker Lead Stories being censored involved the liberal Facebook fact checker. The outlet labeled a satirical article from the site headlined, “CNN Praises Taliban For Wearing Masks During Attack,” as “false.” Does Lead Stories not understand what the word “satire” means? What about Twitter?
Conservatives under attack Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on “hate speech” and equal footing for conservatives. Contact us at CensorTrack if you feel your voice has been blocked. Use the contact formPlease help us make Big Tech more accountable.
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