(Alex Tien, Headline USA) It was only a matter of time.
The Babylon Bee, a parody news site started in 2016, was recently banned on Twitter for posting an article that didn’t line up with the social media website’s so-called “community guidelines.”
The article in questioned named Rachel Levine, Biden’s transgender Health Secretary as “man of the year,” as a joke. The valiant keyboard warriors over at Twitter HQ were quick to act, suspending the Babylon Bee’s account for violating rules against “hateful conduct.”
Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon laid out how Twitter decreed the account would be restored only if they would delete the tweet in question, he told Tucker Carlson.
Dillon’s response showed the type of attitude that should be taken by more companies when Twitter decides to arbitrarily restrict access to certain accounts.
“We said, wait a minute. Deleting that tweet requires that we agree that we have violated the hateful conduct policy, and we don’t agree with that,” Dillon said. “We don’t believe that speaking the truth is hate speech.”
Consequently, the Babylon Bee has now gained attention and has seen an increase in press. It appears that Big Tech has yet to learn its lesson that antics such as banning accounts, censoring “hate speech” and silencing disallowed opinions typically backfires and results in more coverage than what otherwise would have been given.
The Babylon Bee, started to parody the now insignificant spoof website The Onion, has grown immensely in popularity since its inception in 2016. Unafraid to tackle controversial religious, political, and cultural issues, The Bee has proven to be one of the most effective sources of defense against the corrupt mainstream news establishment.
Its refusal to be bullied by Big Tech is a part of a growing trend that should have the tech oligarchs fearful.
