
Others whose accounts have been frozen or flagged by Twitter for referring to Dr. Agrawal said: “Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation and our moves are reflective of things that we believe lead to a healthier public conversation.”

The host cited a November 2020 interview with the MIT Technology Review in which Mr.
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Carlson said on Wednesday’s show that Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal “has said plainly he does not believe in free speech,” but “now controls the single most important forum for America’s political conversation.” I just happened to check now and I was back /Uqpe4WhfAR “This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” said a Twitter spokesperson.Īlso suspended was Bee editor-in-chief Kyle Mann for a tweet mocking the Twitter lockout, although he tweeted Thursday that his account had been unlocked without explanation. Twitter’s policy against “hateful conduct” bans “repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category.” But we’re not bending the knee and doing it for them.”

“We’re disappointed by their rejection of our appeal, but we aren’t surprised by it. It’s about shielding their false gender ideology from criticism, even criticism done in jest,” Mr. “This isn’t about protecting individuals from targeted hatred or harassment. Each of the accounts has more than 1 million followers.īabylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon said that Twitter sent him the following message denying the Bee’s appeal: “Our support team has determined that a violation did take place, and therefore we will not overturn our decision.”Įven so, he said Thursday that the Bee isn’t budging. Kirk and the Babylon Bee have refused to delete their Levine tweets. So it was a factual statement, but on Twitter, as in our public life, truth is no defense.”

This has been universally acknowledged by homo sapiens for at least 300,000 years. He said that both tweets “merely noted that biological sex is fixed at birth.
