{"id":1391972,"date":"2022-03-21T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1391972"},"modified":"2022-03-21T13:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:00:55","slug":"the-babylon-bees-twitter-resistance-is-a-lesson-in-taking-on-tech-tyrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-babylon-bees-twitter-resistance-is-a-lesson-in-taking-on-tech-tyrants\/","title":{"rendered":"The Babylon Bee\u2019s Twitter Resistance Is A Lesson In Taking On Tech Tyrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fthe-babylon-bees-twitter-resistance-is-a-lesson-in-taking-on-tech-tyrants%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=1391972&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-21-at-11.08.59-AM-e1647879012780.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Twitter maliciously nuked The Babylon Bee\u2019s account over the weekend for poking fun at the leftist media\u2019s elevation of biological men as \u201cwomen of the year\u201d but the popular satire site isn\u2019t giving into Big Tech\u2019s demands that it delete true statements. <\/p>\n<p>The Babylon Bee was first locked out of its account on Sunday after it posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/the-babylon-bees-man-of-the-year-is-rachel-levine\">article<\/a> claiming \u201cThe Babylon Bee\u2019s Man of the Year is Rachel Levine.\u201d The article simply pointed out that a male is a male and that awarding him an award designed for women is absurd, but Twitter rushed to shut down the page under its \u201chateful conduct\u201d policy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou 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,\u201d Twitter claimed. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"QSbaK\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;re told our account will be restored in 12 hours, but the countdown won&#8217;t begin until we delete the tweet that violates the Twitter Rules. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/85tdmrqJpU\">pic.twitter.com\/85tdmrqJpU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1505666033620815880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Twitter demanded that the Bee\u2019s creators delete the tweet or risk being indefinitely banned from posting, liking, or commenting. <\/p>\n<p>Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon could have easily ordered his team to comply with Twitter, delete the tweet, and restore the account, which has 1.3 million followers and generates thousands of likes every day. Instead, he publicly proclaimed that the Bee would not censor itself to gain approval from and access to the leftist platform. <\/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 Dillon wrote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"e\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;ve received some messages from people asking how they can help. I can think of a few ways:<\/p>\n<p>1. Never censor yourself. Insist that 2 and 2 make 4 even if Twitter tries to compel you to say otherwise. Make them ban tens of millions of us.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1505729734784733190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Before Twitter waged a war on the Bee, Facebook tried to<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/20\/facebook-demonetizes-satire-site-babylon-bee-claims-monty-python-spoof-incites-violence\/\"> demonetize <\/a>the satire site in 2020 for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/senator-hirono-demands-acb-be-weighed-against-a-duck-to-see-if-she-is-a-witch\">spoofing Sen. Mazie Hirono\u2019s comments<\/a>\u00a0during the Amy Coney Barrett hearings because the social media oligarchs claimed it \u201cincited violence.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Once again, instead of caving to Facebook\u2019s demands that the Bee edit out parts of the article that the Zuckerberg company deemed problematic, the Bee\u2019s creators sacrificed its Facebook-based income to stand by the article.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re asking us to edit the article and not speak publicly about internal content reviews. Oops, did I just tweet this?\u201d Dillon tweeted. <\/p>\n<p>In the same thread, he clarified that \u201cwe will not be editing the article to get our page\u2019s monetization reinstated.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"TIQGfg3EOpxChBk9Xc\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In what universe does a fictional quote as part of an obvious joke constitute a genuine incitement to violence? How does context not come into play here? They&#8217;re asking us to edit the article and not speak publicly about internal content reviews. Oops, did I just tweet this?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1318586466998550529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"n3RdM9Tk3hBmn4tqWvkac1vKorbdUFpIyz6fJEEf7juCpTOXAmLcHtoUaM7KDjw85xHS\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We will not be editing the article to get our page&#8217;s monetization reinstated. We will, however, be talking to the media about this. Send your inquiries my way: seth@babylonbee.com<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1318596030951280641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s a lesson that every conservative on Twitter and other tech platforms needs to learn. <\/p>\n<p>Twitter is a historically bad and partisan actor that knowingly suppresses true information. Just this week, The New York Times stealthily admitted that the Hunter Biden laptop story, which was collectively throttled by the propaganda press and Big Tech oligarchs, is indeed legitimate. When the New York Post first reported on Hunter\u2019s corruption in October 2020, Twitter was the first company to lock the Post\u2019s account and quash anyone who tried to interact with the article. <\/p>\n<p>Science shows men and women are different. Any claims by Rachel Levine, swimmer Lia Thomas, or the industries that willfully erase women\u2019s spaces to accommodate science-denying men are bogus and deserve to be called out. The Bee did the right thing by standing up for truth, and anyone who wants to preserve it must do the same. <\/p>\n<p>Big Tech companies will force you into doing and saying whatever they want if you don\u2019t object. Psychologist Jordan Peterson, who resigned from his tenured position at the University of Toronto due to increasing wokeness, said as much about the tyranny that has dominated public policy for the last two years. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings get to terrible places one tiny step at a time,\u201d Peterson explained. \u201cI\u2019m going to encroach right to the point where you start to protest, then I\u2019m going to stop. And I\u2019m going to wait. Then you\u2019re going to come down. Then I\u2019m going to encroach again right to the point where you protest, and I\u2019m going to stop. Then I\u2019m going to wait. And I\u2019m just going to do that forever, and before you know it you\u2019re going to be back three miles from where you started and you\u2019ll have done it one step at a time. \u2026 I pushed you a little farther than you should have gone and you agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"nzH0\"><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Refusing to cede fundamental ground to Twitter in the battle for truth won\u2019t stop you from getting censored, suppressed, or even banned. But it won\u2019t allow Twitter to redefine norms \u201cone tiny step at a time.\u201d If your account is under attack from Twitter, take a lesson from The Babylon Bee.<\/p>\n<p>As Dillon said: \u201cNever censor yourself. Insist that 2 and 2 make 4 even if Twitter tries to compel you to say otherwise. Make them ban tens of millions of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. 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