Under its rules, users can be ordered to remove an offending tweet and “serve a period of time in read-only mode before they can tweet again”.Īn account can be suspended if moderators find the account’s “primary use” is “engaging in hateful conduct as defined in this policy”. Twitter’s hateful conduct policy prohibits users from misgendering trans people or deliberately deadnaming them as it “dehumanising degrades” them. Both come after the service censured Texan attorney general Ken Paxton for misgendering Levine. Twitter also locked the account for the Christian Post for similarly misgendering Levine in response to her USA Today title. Not The Bee, the Bee‘s sister website, was also blocked from tweeting. It remains unclear at the time of writing whether Twitter moderators removed the tweet or the Bee did.ĭillon later confirmed that the Bee’s editor-in-chief, Kyle Mann, has also been locked out of his account for an offensive tweet about “concentration camps” and the persecution of Uyghurs by China. On Twitter, Dillon refused to take the tweet down. By Tuesday, however, the offending tweet had been removed. “We have to bend the knee, kiss the ring, bow to the towering statue of LGBTQ politics when the trumpets play, or we stay on timeout indefinitely.” “When cultural revolutions happen, the comics and entertainers are the first to be targeted by the revolutionaries,” he said. He said the website is refusing to “succumb to their ideological madness”. I hire people publicly, with wine!” Kassam captioned a photo of the pair enjoying a bottle of red.Dillon claimed the Bee was being “censored” in an opinion piece for The New York Post, one of America’s biggest tabloids. Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of the National Pulse, quickly swooped in to offer Wax a new fires people publicly, and whines. Luckily for Wax, he didn’t head into the long weekend unemployed.
But still, Wax’s defenders said that the Bee was engaging in conservative cancel culture. He also insisted that he would have fired a DeSantis supporter if he had behaved the same way. Others alleged Wax was fired because of the use of profanity, but this explanation didn’t hold up because other Bee employees had also used plenty of curse words in their tweets.īreitbart writer Brandon Darby chalked the firing up to something even simpler: Wax “sassed boss publicly.”ĭillon jumped on a Twitter Space (where else?! to defend firing Wax, and argued that Wax did not comport himself online appropriately while identifying as an employee of the Bee. This could perhaps explain why the Bee wasn’t happy with one of its employees publicly cursing at Christina Pushaw. It was revealed in March that DeSantis had paid thousands of dollars to the Bee for “advertising” and “email services” during his 2022 gubernatorial campaign. Wax complied and then went on a screed against the Bee, asserting that he was fired for supporting Trump over DeSantis. “Being accused of things that are false (and criminal) doesn’t work for me,” Wax shot back.ĭillon then officially fired Wax, telling him to take the Babylon Bee out of his Twitter bio.
Dillon replied, “tweeting like this with the Bee in your bio doesn’t work for me.” Seth Dillon, who runs the Babylon Bee and is thus Wax’s boss, apparently took issue with the profanity-laden question. Wax noticed, and tweeted, “Hey what’s your fucking problem?”
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