Posted on 11/10/2023 7:43:13 AM PST by MtnClimber
Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon talked to us about being censored for a joke. You’ll never guess what happened next.
Last year, the Babylon Bee was censored for naming Rachel Levine its ‘Man of the Year’. Now, the David Horowitz Freedom Center has been banned over a speech about that joke.
On Friday afternoon, Seth Dillon, the gregarious leader of the Babylon Bee, took the floor to tell attendees at the Center’s Restoration Weekend about his fight against censorship.
When USA Today named Rick ‘Rachel’ Levine, a transgender Biden administration official, as one of its ‘Women of the Year’, the Babylon Bee responded by naming him its ‘Man of the Year’.
And Twitter locked the Bee’s account for “hateful conduct” for telling the obvious truth.
That Orwellian act of censorship was described as one of the most “consequential” moments in the anti-woke struggle against Big Tech and helped lead to Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter.
Dillon was talking about the past, but while we sat in a New Orleans ballroom little did we know that history was about to repeat itself sooner than anyone expected. After concluding another successful Restoration Weekend featuring Dillon along with many important (and often censored) speakers and panelists, the David Horowitz Freedom Center began sharing their talks with the rest of the conservative movement by uploading them on the Vimeo video site.
On Monday morning, I began hearing that all of our videos had suddenly disappeared.
A conservative on the internet is always one thought away from being censored. And the David Horowitz Freedom Center has been banned many times before because we had taken on issues and hosted figures who challenged the leftist culture of lies. With no information from Vimeo as to why we had been censored, the Center’s team could only speculate what woke dogma we had violated that hurt the tender feelings of the boys on the 10th floor in Manhattan.
Was it our panels and remarks about Islamic terrorism? YouTube had previously come after us to suppress Robert Spencer’s magnificent exposes of the ideology of terror and death. Had it been John Eastman’s stunning elucidation of the stolen presidential election after receiving his Annie Taylor award? Simone Gold’s presentation on medical fascism? Yeomi Park’s story contrasting her life in North Korea with the Maoism of college campuses? Heather Mac Donald’s debunking of affirmative action? When Vimeo finally got back to us, it turned out to be the ‘Bee’.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center had been censored for a talk about censorship....
Welcome to our brave new world.
I thought X (Twitter) was going to more free speech, less censorship under Musk
I get all my news from the Bee. It is great - it comes three months ahead of the actual events.
Vimeo and X are two different companies. Musk doesn’t own the former.
Twitter banned “the Bee” before Musk took over. The video bans came from Vimeo.
“I thought X (Twitter) was going to more free speech, less censorship under Musk”
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If that were true, the 100K+ anons that were removed from Twitter the day of the “insurrection”, would be re-instated by now.
They have not been.
...by whom?
Answer: The unconstitutional federal government using social media as a front!!!!
The Left wants confusion of course and blurs the line between private enterprise who have every right to free (political) speech and censorship and the feds who have NO RIGHT to abridge freedom of political speech.
Goes back to the drug-crazed hippies. They didn't want true free political speech. In fact they wanted to stop freedom of political speech if it didn't agree with their drug-crazed movement.
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This infinite kafkaesque censorship of any mention of the censorship takes it to a new level.
The same woke culture that holds festivities of bestselling child porn for the hypocritical orgy of its ‘Banned Books Week’ relentlessly censors any dissent and even the existence of its censorship. Then it turns around and claims that laws in Texas and Florida that ban government censorship of speech are impinging on the free speech rights of the government to censor you.
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“I get all my news from the Bee. It is great - it comes three months ahead of the actual events”
Lol That’s a winner!
They have, it was Vimeo that censored the Freedom Center.
Probably a lot of Russian fake accounts.
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So, in your view, anons were NOT removed for trying to post video of what happened that day.
Ok, then.
But not cool, Jenny... More... “Narrative Enforcing”, than “cool”, don’t you think?
But necessary, if the Derp State is to prevail and justice for the theft of the 2020 election be avoided altogether.
Isn't this a blatant violation of the Constitutional Right to Free Speech?
Why are they getting away with this?
Is the Constitution the law of the land? Or is it just a bunch of meaningless words on paper?
It appears to mean nothing to our thieving, lying, criminal, government, but it also benefits them to ignore it.
For example: censoring Free Speech allows them to cover up their thieving, lying, and criminality.
If anyone dares to speak out, make jokes about, or expose wrongdoing, they shut them up, and make sure as few people as possible hear them. That lets them keep their corruption going, and no one does anything about it.
I can’t stand to look at that freak.
Calm down, EasySt.
I said I’m sure that many accounts were banned for other reasons than “that day.” I didn’t say many accounts related to “that day” weren’t banned.
Take it easy, EasySt. And have a good weekend.
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