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From Fox News: The conservative satire outlet the Babylon Bee is calling out X’s rival platform Bluesky for repeatedly censoring its posts and arbitrarily labeling them “intolerance.”
Babylon Bee editor-in-chief Kyle Mann told Fox News Digital that Bluesky’s decision to censor their content is a “chilling reminder” of what the social media landscape would look like if Elon Musk had not bought Twitter.
The Babylon Bee was suspended from Twitter in 2022 for posting a satirical article calling Adm. Rachel Levine, a Biden administration Cabinet member and a transgender woman, the “man of the year.”
Twitter flagged the post as violating its rules regarding “hateful conduct” and suspended the Babylon Bee’s account until they deleted their tweet, which the outlet refused to do. The Babylon Bee’s account remained suspended by Twitter until Musk reinstated it after he gained control.
Now, two years later, the Babylon Bee is facing a similar dilemma on Bluesky, which was created by Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey and is widely seen as a direct competitor to X.
Bluesky’s community guidelines say they prohibit “gender identity-based harassment” and anything “promoting hate or extremist conduct that targets people or groups based on their race, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, or sexual orientation.”
On November 18, the Babylon Bee posted the same satire meme about Levine that got them banned from Twitter back in 2022.
We decided we’d start putting our Babylon Bee articles up on BlueSky! Looking forward to a long and fruitful time over there!https://t.co/DVyFmKsamY pic.twitter.com/BZerMGWs9e
— Kyle Mann (@The_Kyle_Mann) November 18, 2024
Each time the post was made about Levin, Bluesky hid it, with an “intolerance” flag.
Babylon Bee editor-in-chief Kyle Mann told Fox News, “Bluesky’s censorship policies are eerily reminiscent of the status quo on Twitter before Elon Musk took over. It’s chilling to think about what freedom of speech might look like right now in the United States if Musk hadn’t stepped up and freed us from the Twitter tyrants.”
Our @TheBabylonBee debut on Blue Sky is going great 😂 pic.twitter.com/Hf6xRYUQVF
— Kyle Mann (@The_Kyle_Mann) November 20, 2024
Conservative X user End Wokeness created an account on Bluesky, and got banned within 30 seconds for posting a simple statement that reads, “There are only two genders.”
Got banned from BIuesky within the first 30 seconds for posting a biological fact pic.twitter.com/uxQzPVn2SR
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 17, 2024
Multiple conservatives have been banned by the liberal platform for typing the same statement.
Wow. All you have to do to get banned for life from “Bluesky” is to say “there are only two genders”.
Total cult behavior, complete with heresy and banishment. pic.twitter.com/2zGJ8IUXnS— Mark Voelker (@MarkVoelker1) November 24, 2024
I may set up a @bluesky account, I don’t expect to last long. But someone has to keep the left’s feet to the fire.
Apparently typing in “there are only two genders” is an instant ban. pic.twitter.com/GZ5G2ItdwE
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) November 20, 2024
NEW: Leftists on X knockoff “Bluesky” celebrate immediate censorship of conservative accounts who joined them pic.twitter.com/DnMhnRjSs7
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 18, 2024
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