Twitter Bans Satirical Website For “Hateful” Trans Joke
Twitter Bans Satirical Website For “Hateful” Trans Joke

The right-wing conservative satire site Babylon Bee was recently suspended on Twitter after posting a joke naming U.

S.

Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Rachel Levine, who is a trans woman, “Man of the Year.

The joke may be hacky and degrading, and a clearly failed attempt at “satire,” but that doesn’t mean a giant tech behemoth like Twitter should have exclusive power to ban anyone’s speech based on whatever the company’s algorithm and executives decide qualifies as “hateful.”