{"id":1397984,"date":"2022-03-24T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T13:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397984"},"modified":"2022-03-24T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T13:14:58","slug":"twitter-denies-babylon-bee-appeal-after-account-lockdown-over-rachel-levine-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-denies-babylon-bee-appeal-after-account-lockdown-over-rachel-levine-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Denies Babylon Bee Appeal After Account Lockdown over Rachel Levine Joke"},"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\">24<\/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-denies-babylon-bee-appeal-after-account-lockdown-over-rachel-levine-joke%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=1397984&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\">Twitter denied the Christian satire site The Babylon Bee\u2019s appeal on Wednesday after it had its account locked down over a joke calling the transgender HHS assistant secretary\u00a0Dr. Rachel Levine a \u201cman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter has denied The Babylon Bee\u2019s appeal. They wrote, \u2018Our support team has determined that a violation did take place, and therefore we will not overturn our decision,&#8217;\u201d Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon announced on Wednesday.<\/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<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: Twitter has denied The Babylon Bee&#8217;s appeal. They wrote, &#8220;Our support team has determined that a violation did take place, and therefore we will not overturn our decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1506799894538895366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seth Dillon did not indicate if the company will take legal action.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Babylon Bee was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/20\/twitter-locks-babylon-bee-account-hateful-conduct\/\">sentenced<\/a>\u00a0to Twitter jail over an article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2022\/03\/15\/media-giant-declares-man-as-a-women-of-the-year\/\">mocking<\/a>\u00a0<em>USA Today<\/em>\u00a0for recently declaring the biological male Rachel Levine a \u201cwoman of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\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 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<p>\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 Dillon said. \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<\/p>\n<p>Twitter ramped up its censoring spree when it later locked Babylon Bee editor-in-chief, Kyle Mann, and Babylon Bee founder, Adam Ford, from their respective accounts. Kyle Mann announced on Wednesday the lockdown had been lifted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have successfully tunneled out of Twitter Jail using only a pair of chopsticks<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyle Mann (@The_Kyle_Mann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_Kyle_Mann\/status\/1506787652594397186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It must have been my helpful joke explanation <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/siEZeYSHj2\">pic.twitter.com\/siEZeYSHj2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyle Mann (@The_Kyle_Mann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_Kyle_Mann\/status\/1506788923120373762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Breitbart News profiled, Twitter censored Fox News host Tucker Carlson when he posted screenshots of tweets from the Babylon Bee and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk calling Rachel Levine a man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimply for stating that the tweets were true, Tucker was censored by Twitter as well. The tweet is now no longer available on Twitter because it \u2018violates the Twitter rules\u2019 against \u2018hateful conduct,&#8217;\u201d noted the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter denied the Christian satire site The Babylon Bee\u2019s appeal on Wednesday after it had its account locked down over a joke calling the transgender HHS assistant secretary\u00a0Dr. Rachel Levine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"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-1397984","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\/1397984","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397984\/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=1397984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}