When asked if he ever self-censored his own ideas or opinions on social media for fear of retaliation by the platforms, Dillon responded: So we fired back, in defense of women and sanity, with this satirical headline: ‘The Babylon Bee’s Man Of The Year is Rachel Levine.'” In his written testimony, Dillon remarked that “ USA Today had named Levine ‘Woman of the Year’ - an insult to real women everywhere. Previously, The Babylon Bee was locked out of Twitter for eight months for a satirical post made about Rachel Lavine, a transgender health health admiral in the current administration. “The most offensive comedy is harmless when compared with even the most well-intentioned censorship” - Seth Dillon Our speech is restricted to the point where we can’t even joke about the insane ideas that are being imposed on us from the top down,” he added. “And that’s basically where we find ourselves today. If the popular narrative is off-limits, then comedy itself is off-limits. “The comedian’s job is to poke holes in the popular narrative. In fact, it guards the narrative at the expense of the truth,” said Dillon. “We learned the hard way that censorship guards the narrative, not the truth. In fact, it guards the narrative at the expense of the truth … Our speech is restricted to the point where we can't even joke about the insane ideas that are being imposed on us from the top down" /sQuRTOH6zT- Tim Hinchliffe March 28, 2023 "Censorship guards the narrative, not the truth.
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