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Twitter maliciously nuked The Babylon Bees account over the weekend for poking fun at the leftist medias elevation of biological men as women of the year but the popular satire site isnt giving into Big Techs demands that it delete true statements.

The Babylon Bee was first locked out of its account on Sunday after it posted an article claiming The Babylon Bees Man of the Year is Rachel Levine. The article simply pointed out that a male is a male and that awarding the male United States Assistant Secretary for Health an award designed for women is absurd, but Twitter rushed to shut down the page under its hateful conduct policy.

You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease, Twitter claimed.

Twitter demanded that the Bees creators delete the tweet or risk being indefinitely banned from posting, liking, or commenting.

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon could have easily ordered his team to comply with Twitter, delete the tweet, and restore the account, which has 1.3 million followers and generates thousands of likes every day. Instead, he publicly proclaimed that the Bee would not censor itself to gain approval from and access to the leftist platform.

Were 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, Dillon wrote.

Before Twitter waged a war on the Bee, Facebook tried to demonetize the satire site in 2020 forspoofing Sen. Mazie Hironos commentsduring the Amy Coney Barrett hearings because the social media oligarchs claimed it incited violence.

Once again, instead of caving to Facebooks demands that the Bee edit out parts of the article that the Zuckerberg company deemed problematic, the Bees creators sacrificed its Facebook-based income to stand by the article.

Theyre asking us to edit the article and not speak publicly about internal content reviews. Oops, did I just tweet this? Dillon tweeted.

In the same thread, he clarified that we will not be editing the article to get our pages monetization reinstated.

Its a lesson that every conservative on Twitter and other tech platforms needs to learn.

Twitter is a historically bad and partisan actor that knowingly suppresses true information. Just this week, The New York Times stealthily admitted that the Hunter Biden laptop story, which was collectively throttled by the propaganda press and Big Tech oligarchs, is indeed legitimate. When the New York Post first reported on Hunters corruption in October 2020, Twitter was the first company to lock the Posts account and quash anyone who tried to interact with the article.

Science shows men and women are different. Any claims by Rachel Levine, swimmer Lia Thomas, or the industries that willfully erase womens spaces to accommodate science-denying men are bogus and deserve to be called out. The Bee did the right thing by standing up for truth, and anyone who wants to preserve it must do the same.

Big Tech companies will force you into doing and saying whatever they want if you dont object. Psychologist Jordan Peterson, who resigned from his tenured position at the University of Toronto due to increasing wokeness, said as much about the tyranny that has dominated public policy for the last two years.

Things get to terrible places one tiny step at a time, Peterson explained. Im going to encroach right to the point where you start to protest, then Im going to stop. And Im going to wait. Then youre going to come down. Then Im going to encroach again right to the point where you protest, and Im going to stop. Then Im going to wait. And Im just going to do that forever, and before you know it youre going to be back three miles from where you started and youll have done it one step at a time. I pushed you a little farther than you should have gone and you agreed.

Refusing to cede fundamental ground to Twitter in the battle for truth wont stop you from getting censored, suppressed, or even banned. But it wont allow Twitter to redefine norms one tiny step at a time. If your account is under attack from Twitter, take a lesson from The Babylon Bee.

As Dillon said: Never censor yourself. Insist that 2 and 2 make 4 even if Twitter tries to compel you to say otherwise. Make them ban tens of millions of us.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordangdavidson.

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