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Two years ago, The Babylon Bee was suspended from Twitter for “misg****ring” Admiral Rachel Levine.

The Babylon Bee
We were given the following choice from the content moderators at Twitter: Remove the tweet and check a box admitting we participated in h**e speech, or lose our platform.

Here is the internal conversation we had where we decided how we would respond:


The Babylon Bee
We decided to stand for the t***h, because the t***h is not h**e 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 t***h-tellers on the internet.

Here is the internal conversation we had where we decided how we would respond: