{"id":1420968,"date":"2022-04-05T22:29:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420968"},"modified":"2022-04-05T22:29:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:29:51","slug":"tucker-carlson-charlie-kirk-babylon-bee-still-locked-out-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-carlson-charlie-kirk-babylon-bee-still-locked-out-of-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, Babylon Bee Still Locked Out of Twitter"},"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%2Ftucker-carlson-charlie-kirk-babylon-bee-still-locked-out-of-twitter%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=1420968&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\">Christian satire site Babylon Bee, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, and Fox News\u2019s Tucker Carlson are all still locked out of their Twitter accounts for posting that transgender Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) assistant secretary Rachel Levine is a biological male.<\/p>\n<p>The Babylon Bee, Kirk, and Carlson remain defiant after getting suspended from their Twitter accounts, refusing to delete the tweets that got them locked out of their accounts in protest of the social media platform\u2019s censorship of true statements deemed offensive by irascible members of society.<\/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<div id=\"attachment_20221874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/50373175601_dab2e73d4e_k.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sec. of Health Dr. Rachel Levine speaking to the press. Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of the Department of Health Dr. Rachel Levine today launched the COVID-19 exposure notification mobile app, COVID Alert PA, to help fight the spread of the virus. Philadelphia, PA, September 22, 2020. (Governor Tom Wolf\/Flickr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe aren\u2019t banned, but we are suspended until we delete the tweet. We won\u2019t do that,\u201d Kirk told Breitbart News on Tuesday.\u00a0\u201cI won\u2019t deny the truth just to be on Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On March 20, the Babylon Bee was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/21\/babylon-bee-defiant-24-hours-twitter-lockdown-calling-rachel-levine-man\/\">locked out<\/a> of its Twitter account and told that it would have to delete one of its tweets in order to successfully log back into the account. The satire site\u2019s offending tweet featured\u00a0an article mocking <em>USA Today<\/em> for recently declaring Levine \u201cwoman of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Babylon Bee\u2019s Man of the Year is Rachel Levine,\u201d Babylon Bee\u2019s satire headline read.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Around that time, Kirk was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/03\/22\/twitter-suspends-charlie-kirk-for-calling-biological-male-rachel-levine-a-man\/\">suspended<\/a> from Twitter for commenting on <em>USA Today<\/em>\u2018s choice of a biological male for \u201cWoman of the Year.\u201d The TPUSA founder\u2019s tweet simply read:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Richard Levine spent 54 years of his life as a man. He had a wife and a family. He \u201ctransitioned\u201d to being a woman in 2011, Joe Biden appointed Levine to be a 4-Star Admiral and now USA Today has named \u201cRachel\u201d Levine as a \u201cWoman of the Year.\u201d Where are the feminists?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As for Carlson, the Fox News host was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/03\/23\/twitter-censors-tucker-carlson-for-supporting-babylon-bee\/\">locked out<\/a> of his Twitter account for simply posting screenshots of the tweets by the Babylon Bee and Kirk, and stating, \u201cboth these tweets are true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/04\/04\/bokhari-urged-on-by-conservatives-elon-musk-becomes-twitters-largest-shareholder\/\">disclosed<\/a> that he has\u00a0acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/04\/04\/breitbart-business-digest-elon-musk-got-9-2-of-twitter-for-free\/\">9.2 percent<\/a> of Twitter, which makes him the largest shareholder in the company and puts him on the board\u00a0of directors at Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after\u00a0conservatives on the social media platform urged him to use his wealth to fix the company\u2019s free speech problem.<\/p>\n<p>After the news broke of the\u00a0Tesla and SpaceX CEO\u2019s new stake in Twitter \u2014 which is worth $2.89 billion based on Twitter\u2019s closing price on Friday \u2014 Babylon Bee editor-in-chief Seth Dillon revealed that Musk had \u201creached out to us before he polled his followers about Twitter\u2019s commitment to free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe wanted to confirm that we had, in fact, been suspended. He even mused on that call that he might need to buy Twitter. Now he\u2019s the largest shareholder and has a seat on the board,\u201d Dillon added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Musk reached out to us before he polled his followers about Twitter&#8217;s commitment to free speech. He wanted to confirm that we had, in fact, been suspended. He even mused on that call that he might need to buy Twitter. Now he&#8217;s the largest shareholder and has a seat on the board.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1511325246967660547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But while Musk himself has expressed concern that Twitter has been undermining democracy by failing to live up to its founding ideals of free speech, Carlson, Kirk, and the Babylon Bee remain suspended from Twitter for sharing innocuous content deemed \u201chateful\u201d by left-wing activists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing I posted was hateful, encouraging of violence, or racist. It was also 100% accurate,\u201d Kirk told Breitbart News. \u201cIt was stating facts about Levine\u2019s life. Facts should not be banned on Twitter. Facts should not be banned on Twitter or on any American-owned social media platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy hope is that now that Elon Musk is on the board that he will be able to change Twitter from the inside out, remove my suspension, and allow me along with the Babylon Bee, Tucker Carlson, and countless other silenced conservative accounts back on the platform, including President Trump,\u201d Kirk added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they reverse course, it will be good for the country,\u201d the TPUSA founder said.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana\u00a0Mastrangelo on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian satire site Babylon Bee, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, and Fox News\u2019s Tucker Carlson are all still locked out of their Twitter accounts for posting that transgender Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"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-1420968","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\/1420968","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420968\/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=1420968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}