From the daily missive sent by the Babylon Bee email list.
Two years ago, The Babylon Bee was suspended from Twitter for “misgendering” Admiral Rachel Levine.
We were given the following choice from the content moderators at Twitter: Remove the tweet and check a box admitting we participated in hate speech, or lose our platform.
Here is the internal conversation we had where we decided how we would respond:
We decided to stand for the truth, because the truth is not hate speech.
We had no idea that this decision would play a role in one of the biggest wins for free speech in years.
It wasn’t long after we refused to censor ourselves that Elon Musk bought Twitter, changed his bio to “Chief Twit,” and issued an urgent directive: “Bring back the Babylon Bee.” He then changed the platform’s name to X and has committed to making it the freest place for truth-tellers on the internet.
Our commitment to you, our readers, is this: we will never back down from this fight. The truth is worth it, and always will be.
Gotta love those guys. Elon Musk too; his takeover/liberation of the insidious Twitter propaganda-mill has been beneficial in multifarious ways nobody expected or foresaw at the time. Yeah, yeah, Musk is no conservative; don’t care, not one bit I don’t. All one has to do is take a look at the ongoing anguished wailing of pretty much every last man Jack of the Goosesteppin’ Left for confirmation of the incredible impact losing a single social-media platform had.
Keep on stingin’, Bee!
For every knock on Musk I read there is this, and it covers every bit of any uncertainty.
I’m not interested in purity tests. “Is he better than the realistic alternatives?” “Is he the best available now?” By this standard, both Musk and Trump win by a landslide.