{"id":1391264,"date":"2022-03-20T23:25:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T03:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1391264"},"modified":"2022-03-21T08:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:44:52","slug":"twitter-locks-babylon-bee-account-for-hateful-conduct-mocking-transgender-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-locks-babylon-bee-account-for-hateful-conduct-mocking-transgender-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Locks Babylon Bee Account for &#039;Hateful Conduct&#039; Mocking Transgender Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-locks-babylon-bee-account-for-hateful-conduct-mocking-transgender-ideology%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1391264&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Twitter locked the Christian satire site the Babylon Bee out of its account on Sunday for \u201chateful conduct\u201d over an article satirizing\u00a0Dr. Rachel Levine, the transgender assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).<\/p>\n<p>The article and headline that reportedly sentenced the Babylon Bee to Twitter jail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2022\/03\/15\/media-giant-declares-man-as-a-women-of-the-year\/\">mocked<\/a> <em>USA Today<\/em> recently declaring Rachel Levine a \u201cwoman of the year.\u201d Levine is a man living as a woman.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Babylon Bee\u2019s Man of the Year is Rachel Levine,\u201d said the headline.<\/p>\n<p>For that, Twitter reportedly\u00a0locked the account for 12 hours on the condition that the Babylon Bee delete the headline, according to company CEO Seth Dillon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just received this notice that we\u2019ve been locked out of our account for \u2018hateful conduct,&#8217;\u201d Dillon tweeted. \u201cWe\u2019re told our account will be restored in 12 hours, but the countdown won\u2019t begin until we delete the tweet that violates the Twitter Rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just received this notice that we\u2019ve been locked out of our account for \u201chateful conduct.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/udMriKcDr6\">pic.twitter.com\/udMriKcDr6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1505663712266493958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBabylonBee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheBabylonBee<\/a> has been suspended from Twitter for hate speech for calling Rachel (n\u00e9e Richard) Levine a man. Which is objectively true. The price of getting our account back is deleting the tweet. This is real life.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Ford (@Adam4d) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Adam4d\/status\/1505703463451254785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Twitter policy said that publications \u201cmay 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seth Dillon added that the Babylon Bee will not delete the headline to appease Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not deleting anything. Truth is not hate speech. If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;re not deleting anything. Truth is not hate speech. If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1505674884222967810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2019, the Babylon Bee\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/satire-site-looking-into-legal-action-against-snopes-over-fact-checking\">recruited<\/a> legal representation after\u00a0the fact-checking site Snopes published an allegedly defamatory piece accusing the outlet of using satire as a \u201cruse\u201d to deliberately mislead its readers \u2014 a charge that Snopes never once leveled against the openly satirical site the Onion.<\/p>\n<p>Seth Dillon explained to conservative film critic Christian Toto how Facebook threatened to demonetize the site\u2019s page if it did not censor one of its articles poking fun at Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI). After battling with Facebook back and forth, the article was eventually allowed to stay, and the social media giant dismissed the incident as a \u201cmistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16091666\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1231376210-2.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Levine testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee February 25, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Caroline Brehman-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always a mistake,\u201d Dillon said. \u201cThey\u2019re reaching, stretching to make us in violation of their community standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Twitter also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/25\/twitter-locks-rep-banks-account-for-misgendering-trans-official\/\">locked<\/a> the account of Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) for the crime of \u201cmisgendering\u201d Rachel Levine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man,\u201d Banks tweeted at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2019\/12\/07\/twitter-locks-accounts-of-canadian-journalists-covering-jessica-yaniv-criminal-case\/\">locked<\/a> the accounts of two Canadian journalists for allegedly misgendering transgender activist Jessica Yaniv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter locked the Christian satire site the Babylon Bee out of its account on Sunday for \u201chateful conduct\u201d over an article satirizing\u00a0Dr. Rachel Levine, the transgender assistant secretary for health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}