Twitter Locks Out Babylon Bee Over Parody; Amid Lia Thomas Controversy

Keneci Channel

The CEO Seth Dillon of the satirical news website revealed in a tweet Sunday that the social media platform locked their Twitter account for violating the platform's rules "against hateful conduct."

The Babylon Bee article that triggered the little left-wing fascists at Twitter? An article titled "The Babylon Bee's Man Of The Year Is Rachel Levine." The 64-year-old who recently started identifying as a woman, is United States President Joe Biden's Assistant Secretary for Health.

The Babylon Bee article is apparently a mocking response to far-left news website USA Today naming Levine the official "'Woman' of the Year."

The Babylon Bee article reads:

“Rachel’s original name is Richard Levine, but he changed it to Rachel for some strange reason a few years ago. Who cares? Who says a dude as accomplished as this can’t be named ‘Rachel?’ This king doesn’t care what people think about him! He often wears a dress, which some people think is weird — but he doesn’t care one bit. Come on! Men in India wear dress-type garments, don’t they? Since announcing this award, we’ve been told that Levine actually identifies as a woman. We have still chosen to give the award as his self-identification has no bearing on the truth. Congratulations, Rachel Levine!”

The Babylon Bee tweet linking to the article must have been mass-reported by terminally online left-wing trolls. And of course the woke activists at Twitter were obviously not amused too. They locked out Babylon Bee from accessing their account.

"I just received this notice that we’ve been locked out of our account for 'hateful conduct,'" Dillon wrote with a screen short of the notice from Twitter.

Criticisms of the social media platform were swift, obviously because Babylon Bee is a popular website with hilarious posts that regularly go viral online. Who thought we'd ever get to a time when satire is censored on social media? Apparently we are in that time. Left-wing websites have been widely mocked in the past, for 'fact-checking' some of the satirical website's articles.

Critics pointed out the absurdity of Twitter basically censoring biological fact that Levine is a man.

"The account you referenced has been temporarily locked for violating our hateful conduct policy," Twitter wrote in a statement responding to media enquiries. "The account owner is required to delete the violative Tweet before regaining access to their account."

The Babylon Bee CEO however said they don't intend to delete the 'offending' tweet.

"We're not deleting anything," Dillon wrote. "Truth is not hate speech. If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it."

The CEO later added: "They could, of course, delete the tweet themselves. But they won't. It's not enough for them to just wipe it out. They want us to bend the knee and admit that we engaged in hateful conduct."

Dillon urged people to refuse to self-censor, suggesting "even if Twitter tries to compel you to say otherwise. Make them ban tens of millions of us."

This latest brazen censorship by Twitter comes amid the controversy over the success of transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, another biological male who won Thursday, in the 500-yard freestyle at the women's NCAA Championships in Atlanta, Georgia.

Critics slammed games organizers and Thomas, who previously swam for the men's team before transitioning to female in 2019 and sparking a national debate. He finished the race with a time of 4:33.24, more than a full second ahead of second place finisher Emma Weyant who many online declared the rightful winner.

Those critical of Thomas' participation took to Twitter following the swimmer's controversial win, with some arguing it set a bad precedent that would ensure the "murder of women's sports."

Some critics questioned why the NCAA and universities or colleges would allow men to compete in women's sports in the first place, arguing that it didn't make sense. Others lamented that there weren't more female athletes speaking out against the inclusion of athletes like Thomas.