{"id":1395250,"date":"2022-03-23T00:29:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T04:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395250"},"modified":"2022-03-23T00:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T04:29:48","slug":"twitter-suspends-babylon-bee-editor-in-chief-for-mocking-platforms-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-suspends-babylon-bee-editor-in-chief-for-mocking-platforms-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Suspends Babylon Bee Editor in Chief for Mocking Platform&#039;s Censorship"},"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-suspends-babylon-bee-editor-in-chief-for-mocking-platforms-censorship%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=1395250&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The editor-in-chief of the Babylon Bee, the popular conservative-run satirical website, has been locked out of his Twitter account after mocking the platform for allowing Chinese officials involved in abuses against the country\u2019s Uighur minority on the platform while conservatives are censored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe they\u2019ll let us back into our @TheBabylonBee Twitter account if we throw a few thousand Uighurs into concentration camps,\u201d quipped editor-in-chief Kyle Mann yesterday morning.<\/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>As of today, Mann is locked out of his Twitter account over the tweet, which the left-wing Big Tech platform calls \u201chateful conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Babylon Bee&#8217;s editor in chief has now been locked out of Twitter for hateful conduct. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/toNL98w2mb\">pic.twitter.com\/toNL98w2mb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1506274486131245060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The censorship of the website\u2019s editor-in-chief follows the lockdown of its official account, which occurred after it pointed out the biological gender of the Biden Administration\u2019s Health &#038; Human Services secretary, Rachel Levine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/21\/babylon-bee-defiant-24-hours-twitter-lockdown-calling-rachel-levine-man\/\">As reported by Breitbart News\u2019 Paul Bois:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Christian satire site the Babylon Bee has remained defiant 24 hours after Twitter locked its account for calling the transgender HHS assistant secretary Dr. Rachel Levine a \u201cman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Babylon Bee was sentenced to Twitter jail over an article mocking USA Today for recently declaring the biological male Rachel Levine a \u201cwoman of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Babylon Bee\u2019s Man of the Year is Rachel Levine,\u201d said the headline.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter then locked the satire site\u2019s account for 12 hours on the condition that they delete the tweet, alleging it violates the platform\u2019s \u201chateful conduct\u201d policy. Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon said they will not cave to Twitter\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not The Bee, a non-satirical news website associated with the Babylon Bee, <a href=\"https:\/\/notthebee.com\/article\/freaking-insane-twitter-just-locked-the-babylon-bees-editor-in-chief-out-of-his-account-for-this-tweet-cuz-its-okay-to-put-people-in-concentration-camps-just-not-to-joke-about-it\">said they would fight the censorship<\/a>, pointing out the influence the platform has over current events.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You may think it\u2019s easy to just ignore Twitter, but remember that it\u2019s a major outlet that influences news, education, and literal law around the world. It\u2019s also a major revenue stream for many businesses who are forced into the Big Tech marketing system to stay afloat.\u00a0It\u2019s worth fighting against discriminatory policies on platforms that claim to be the new public square.\u00a0And The Bee is gonna fight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not the first time that the Babylon Bee has tangled with Silicon Valley\u2019s far-left censors. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2020\/10\/20\/facebook-punishes-babylon-bee-for-teasing-democrat-with-monty-python-joke\/\">As Breitbart News previously reported<\/a>, Facebook has also repeatedly censored the satirical website for poking fun at the left.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News has reached out to Twitter for comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editor-in-chief of the Babylon Bee, the popular conservative-run satirical website, has been locked out of his Twitter account after mocking the platform for allowing Chinese officials involved in abuses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"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-1395250","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\/1395250","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\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395250\/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=1395250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}