It feels like it’s been a lot more than a few days since Twitter locked The Babylon Bee’s account over a tweet drawing attention to the fact that “Admiral” Rachel Levine, United States Assistant Secretary for Health and one of USA Today’s “Women of the Year,” is a biological male. It feels like it’s been more than a few days because a whole lot has happened since then. On Tuesday, Twitter locked Babylon Bee editor-in-chief Kyle Mann out of his account (Mann, for what it’s worth, has refused to cave to Twitter’s stupid demands), and Wednesday, Twitter did the same to Not the Bee CEO and Babylon Bee founder Adam Ford, because Ford had shared a screenshot of the tweet that Twitter claimed had violated their policy on “hateful conduct.”
Last night, Twitter reaffirmed their commitment to punishing The Babylon Bee for having done absolutely nothing wrong. This was the update from Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon:
Update: Twitter has denied The Babylon Bee's appeal. They wrote, "Our support team has determined that a violation did take place, and therefore we will not overturn our decision."
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) March 24, 2022
And there you have it.
Were they able to explain the exact violation?
— Ryan (@bonejay6969) March 24, 2022
Well, according to Twitter, this is what constitutes “hateful conduct”:
— Clifton Hamilton (@CHamiltoChem) March 24, 2022
The Babylon Bee’s tweet wasn’t hateful. In fact, it was rooted in science. What’s hateful about following basic biological science, exactly?
And we have to ask: What’s not hateful about something like this?
Yet calling an elected official a pedophile is acceptable satire for @Twitter 🤷🏼♂️ https://t.co/mRPyQrVbPA
— Thomas Lee (@TomLee451) March 24, 2022
Why is The Onion suggesting that Josh Hawley is a pedophile not hateful conduct, but The Babylon Bee suggesting that Rachel Levine is not biologically female — which is unequivocally correct, for the record — is?
The Ministry of Truth has spoken
Accept the new lie
Or perish https://t.co/DQJawRoSN6— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) March 24, 2022
In that Twitter is main way people communicate in the modern world (for now), shouldn’t we know names and political affiliations of people on support team? Are they same people who hid the Biden laptop story thus interfering with the 2020 election?
(It was nice knowing you all.) https://t.co/EUYnKdf0R8
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) March 24, 2022
Either the rules apply to everyone, Twitter, or they apply to no one. You can’t keep selectively enforcing vague rules and expect people to just shrug it off.
And one last thing for Twitter to keep in mind:
Twitter needs the Bee more than the Bee needs Twitter. https://t.co/kwl0VY94vU
— Miss Liberty Won't EVER Shut Up!🚚 (@TheUSARocks) March 24, 2022
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