Islamists can justify wife beating and call for killing millions of French on Twitter, but do not dare say “men cannot get pregnant” or you will be blocked.
Libertarian magazine Reason compared it to George Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth”. To ensure “the safety of users”, or to protect them from incorrect thoughts and words (Islamophobic, homophobic, migrantphobic, transophobic …), Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had seen fit to create an internal consulting group with a disturbing name: “Council for trust and security”. It may take a few years to figure out that it is tasked, as in Orwell’s 1984, with eliminating forbidden words and thoughts, so let’s look at what it has been doing.
The famous American satire site, The Babylon Bee, has just been suspended from Twitter. It had violated “trust and security”. Its director, Seth Dillon, said they were banned for a tweet mocking Rachel Levine, who identifies as a transgender and US public health service officer. “Babylon Bee’s Man of the Year is Rachel Levine,” reads the tweet.
