Daily Stormer The Most Censored Publication in History
Good thing Facebook told me this isn’t real, or else I’d never know
When people first started promoting The Babylon Bee, I thought it was pretty boomer and normie-tier. However, they’ve won me over. I think a lot of their stuff is legitimately funny these days.
Of course, you’re not allowed to be funny. There is no joking allowed. It violates federal law under Joe Biden’s “Horseplay and Rough-Housing Act of 2021.”
One of Facebook’s “fact checkers” flagged a post last week from the Babylon Bee, the leading conservative satirical website, in another incident of leftists deliberately or accidentally mistaking comedy for factual claims.
The video was also censored on the video sharing platform TikTok. While TikTok originated in China, its American branch recruits from the same pool of leftist content moderators that Facebook and Twitter do, who care more about censoring satire of woke causes than the discussion of Tiananmen Square or Hong Kong.
The short video, which can be watched on YouTube, is a mock Mattel ad designed to poke fun at leftists’ claims about gender that fly in the face of reality.
“Men can get pregnant just like women,” says the narrator. “In fact, there’s no definition of women! We literally have no idea what a woman is!”
“Pregnant Ken does all the normal things every birthing person does, like chestfeed, and hide his breasts with chest binders. He rocks baby to sleep with his supple masculine arms.”
“Tell your birthing people to buy you a Pregnant Ken today, because why should women be the only ones who can experience the miracle of getting an abortion?”
In response to the video, Facebook-approved Latin American “fact checker” Cotejo.info flagged the Babylon Bee for “false information,” forcing Facebook users to click through a warning screen before viewing the video, and reducing its spread on the platform.
As far as why they haven’t just been banned outright – these companies can’t just ban everything, or people will stop using their services. It’s been less than a decade ago that Mark Zuckerberg was refusing the demands of the ADL to ban pages about Jewish ritual human sacrifice.
Facebook has its own larger agenda to use everyone’s information, and run behavioral tests on everyone, in order to create “social simulations” that can predict world events, and any amount of censorship breaks that, and the more censorship there is, the less it works.
I don’t know anyone who uses Facebook. Part of that is poor design decisions, such as making it so you’re constantly connected to people you haven’t seen in decades, but a big part of it is just a total lack of engaging or interesting content.
