All the Hunter Biden censorship from Twitter and Facebook was bad enough, but at least you could understand why they were doing it: They want Biden and Democrats to win and Trump and Republicans to lose. But this Facebook censorship of this Babylon Bee piece is really inexplicable:
Facebook has demonetized Christian satire site the Babylon Bee, saying even after a manual review that an article which used a popular Monty Python bit to skewer Senate questioning of Trump’s Supreme Court pick “incites violence.”
The social media behemoth told Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon that it “stood by” the decision to not only remove the article but demonetize the Bee’s entire page on Tuesday, insisting the piece – headlined “Senator Hirono Demands ACB Be Weighed Against a Duck To See if She Is a Witch” – “incites violence,” Dillon revealed on Twitter.
So after a manual review, Facebook says they stand by their decision to pull down this article and demonetize our page. I'm not kidding. They say this article "incites violence." It's literally a regurgitated joke from a Monty Python movie!https://t.co/U9B6tTOj6N
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) October 20, 2020
“Oh, she’s a witch alright, just look at her!” said Senator Hirono. “Just look at the way she’s dressed and how she’s so much prettier and smarter than us! She’s in league with Beelzebub himself, I just know it! We must burn her!”
Senator Hirono then pulled a live duck out of a massive burlap sack next to her and announced: “In addition to being a Senator, I am also quite wise in the ways of science. Everyone knows witches burn because they are made of wood. I think I read that somewhere. Wood floats, and so do ducks– so logically, if Amy Coney Barrett weighs as much as this duck I found in the reflection pool outside, she is a witch and must be burned.”
Either Facebook’s current staff is too young, callow and stupid to recognize the obvious reference to a film widely considered one of the greatest comedies of all time, or they just hate The Babylon Bee (and, by extension, Christians, conservatives, Republicans, and anyone who plans to vote against Joe Biden) that they’ll use any excuse, no matter how absurd, to strike back at them.
Tags: Babylon Bee, Facebook, Media Watch, Monty Python, Satire
On a bright note all the ad revenue the “demonetized” Babylon Bee now generates will be kept by Facebook.
Embrace the healing power of “and”. Young, callow, stupid, AND hateful.
You could kind of see this coming when USA Today fact check the Bee satire story about the Ninth Circuit Court overturning the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Too many people have no sense of humor especially if it pokes fun at their sacred cow.