Twitter Suspends Babylon Bee – OutKick
On Sunday, Twitter suspended the Babylon Bee, one of many solely good satire accounts on the market proper now. Twitter claims the Bee violated its “hateful conduct” coverage after jokingly naming Well being and Human Providers (HHS) Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine, a organic man who got here out as a transgender, its “Man of the…
On Sunday, Twitter suspended the Babylon Bee, one of many solely good satire accounts on the market proper now.
Twitter claims the Bee violated its “hateful conduct” coverage after jokingly naming Well being and Human Providers (HHS) Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine, a organic man who got here out as a transgender, its “Man of the 12 months.”
*Twitter has shut down The Babylon Bee for doing satire proper. https://t.co/VkdeI7QN9o
— Bobby Burack (@burackbobby_) March 20, 2022
The Bee’s award is a nod to USA Right this moment lately naming Levine “Lady of the 12 months.” So Twitter locked out the Bee for poking enjoyable at a pandering information outlet, which named a organic male the highest lady in the complete universe. We live in an the wrong way up world.
On Saturday, Twitter additionally flagged a tweet from Texas Lawyer Normal Ken Paxton as “hateful” for calling Levine “a person” above the USA Right this moment’s article.
Twitter says it is going to restore the Bee’s account 12 hours after it deletes the tweet. Nonetheless, CEO Seth Dillon says that gained’t occur.
“We’re not deleting something,” Dillon tweets. “Reality just isn’t hate speech. If the price of telling the reality is the lack of our Twitter account, then so be it.”
We sincerely hope the Babylon Bee does ultimately return to Twitter. The Bee is among the solely humorous accounts left on Twitter. With out the Bee, Twitter is only a cesspool of groupthink and unfunny jokes.
