

“Once he does, he will be able to join President Putin, Antifa terrorists, the CCP, and violent pornographers in using Twitter freely.” “Twitter has said they will not unlock account until he deletes the hateful, bigoted material,” the article read. The Bee pointed out the irony in a Tuesday article titled, “Taliban Spokesman Finally Banned From Twitter After Sharing Babylon Bee Headline.” As of Wednesday, girls are barred from attending secondary school. Since regaining power in Afghanistan, the Taliban has put back into place policies limiting women’s mobility, rights, and access to education. Twitter has allowed Taliban-associated accounts, such as those of the Islamist group’s Ministry of Interior Affairs and its spokesman, Qari Saeed Khosty. In practice, the social media giant appears to target users who post on issues such as transgenderism while seemingly ignoring accounts with ties to gross human rights abuses. Twitter’s “ policy on hateful conduct” states, “You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.” The article said Levine “serves proudly as the first man in that position to dress like a western cultural stereotype of a woman.” After the Bee posted a link to the article on Twitter, the platform locked its account for “hateful conduct.” On appeal, Twitter said it would only restore the publication’s account if it deleted the tweet. Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, a biological man who identifies as a woman, in its list of “ women of the year.” Two days later, the Bee posted a satirical article naming Levine its man of the year. Since Sunday, Twitter has held hostage the account of The Babylon Bee, a conservative Christian satire website that made a joke about a transgender Biden administration official.
