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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Last year, the Babylon Bee was censored for naming Rachel Levine its ‘Man of the Year’. Now, the David Horowitz Freedom Center has been banned over a speech about that joke.
On Friday afternoon, Seth Dillon, the gregarious leader of the Babylon Bee, took the floor to tell attendees at the Center’s Restoration Weekend about his fight against censorship.
When USA Today named Rick ‘Rachel’ Levine, a transgender Biden administration official, as one of its ‘Women of the Year’, the Babylon Bee responded by naming him its ‘Man of the Year’.
And Twitter locked the Bee’s account for “hateful conduct” for telling the obvious truth.
That Orwellian act of censorship was described as one of the most “consequential” moments in the anti-woke struggle against Big Tech and helped lead to Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter.
Dillon was talking about the past, but while we sat in a New Orleans ballroom little did we know that history was about to repeat itself sooner than anyone expected. After concluding another successful Restoration Weekend featuring Dillon along with many important (and often censored) speakers and panelists, the David Horowitz Freedom Center began sharing their talks with the rest of the conservative movement by uploading them on the Vimeo video site.
On Monday morning, I began hearing that all of our videos had suddenly disappeared.
A conservative on the internet is always one thought away from being censored. And the David Horowitz Freedom Center has been banned many times before because we had taken on issues and hosted figures who challenged the leftist culture of lies. With no information from Vimeo as to why we had been censored, the Center’s team could only speculate what woke dogma we had violated that hurt the tender feelings of the boys on the 10th floor in Manhattan.
Was it our panels and remarks about Islamic terrorism? YouTube had previously come after us to suppress Robert Spencer’s magnificent exposes of the ideology of terror and death. Had it been John Eastman’s stunning elucidation of the stolen presidential election after receiving his Annie Taylor award? Simone Gold’s presentation on medical fascism? Yeomi Park’s story contrasting her life in North Korea with the Maoism of college campuses? Heather Mac Donald’s debunking of affirmative action? When Vimeo finally got back to us, it turned out to be the ‘Bee’.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center had been censored for a talk about censorship.
According to Vimeo, Seth’s discussion about being censored over the ‘Man of the Year’ joke had gotten the David Horowitz Freedom Center banned. A year after Twitter was ridiculed and then taken over for classifying Babylon Bee’s humor as hate speech, Vimeo sent out a letter announcing “Seth Dillon – The Babylon Bee was removed for Hate Speech.“ The letter refused to name anything hateful that had been said or to specify what in the talk triggered the ban.
The focus of Seth’s talk had been about the different forms of censorship that the site faced. He delved into the internal process that led the Babylon Bee to approve the ‘Man of the Year’ joke even knowing that it risked bringing the wrath of Big Tech down on them.
“We were going back and forth when we pitched this joke,” Seth Dillon had told us at the Restoration Weekend. “This by the way is one of the ways that they censor people. They censor you after the fact, but they also censor you before the fact. There’s pre-censorship that happens because people are afraid to make jokes and statements like this knowing they will probably get censored, so they censor themselves. My writers come to me all the time saying, ‘I’ve got a really funny joke, but if we publish this, we might get banned.’”
Not satisfied with censoring the original funny joke that named Rick ‘Rachel’ Levine, ‘Man of the Year’, Big Tech censored a discussion about the censorship of the joke. When we post this article, we risk being censored for discussing the censorship of the censorship of that joke.
This infinite kafkaesque censorship of any mention of the censorship takes it to a new level.
The same woke culture that holds festivities of bestselling child porn for the hypocritical orgy of its ‘Banned Books Week’ relentlessly censors any dissent and even the existence of its censorship. Then it turns around and claims that laws in Texas and Florida that ban government censorship of speech are impinging on the free speech rights of the government to censor you.
The latest example of Big Tech censorship shouldn’t have come as too much of a surprise.
Vimeo’s CEO Adam Gross was the chair of the board of directors for Democracy Works, a Democrat voter turnout operation, funded by many of the same leftist groups that we had exposed in the past including the Soros network and Pierre Omidyar’s operation.
Vimeo boasts that it embeds “DEI practices into our operations as essential principles” while hoping that everyone forgets that it’s a spinoff of College Humor whose essential principles were weed and fart jokes. Some of College Humor’s jokes, like its ‘Coming Out As Trans-Everything’ 2015 video, would be banned on Vimeo today. (College Humor self-censored it a long time ago.)
“The reason they don’t want you to say that Rachel Levine is ‘Man of the Year’ is because they don’t want you to say that Rachel Levine is a man, they don’t want you to say what’s true,” Seth Dillon told us at Restoration Weekend. “They don’t want you to say that 2 and 2 make 4. They want you to say that 2 and 2 make 5. And one of the most powerful things that we can do is to refuse to go along with that nonsense.”
The David Horowitz Freedom Center is not going along with that nonsense. Since our earliest days we have always challenged the lies of the Left and stood up to its political intimidation.
Vimeo was not a good fit for us, but the politicization of Big Tech means few companies are. What used to be an open tech industry has become a fiefdom of leftist monopolies. And we are opting out. The David Horowitz Freedom Center has already been posting our more recent videos on Rumble and we will upload our Restoration Weekend videos, including Seth’s talk, which you can now see there, to a site where we will not be censored for telling the truth.
Doing what we do means that we are battling censorship every day. And we have the scars to prove it. Our accounts and those of our writers are being shadowbanned, locked or censored all the time. (Full disclosure: my Twitter account had been locked for discussing Islamic terrorism.) Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and many others have taken swipes at us. So have giants like Visa and MasterCard. We have been the object of sustained campaigns from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Color of Change, CAIR and other pressure groups to ‘debank’ and defund us. And running our site is a constant battle with providers that, like Vimeo or Disqus, decide to ban us.
But we’re still here. Still fighting. We’re not going to self-censor or allow ourselves to be censored.
It was our honor to host Seth Dillon for a second time and we are not going to let Big Tech intimidate us out of bringing his words and those of our other important speakers and writers to you. Seth’s message was that no one can silence you if you refuse to stay quiet. We will not be silent. And we will not be censored. This fight we’re in is too important to let the censors win.
Every act of woke censorship just spreads the message further. If Twitter hadn’t decided to censor the Babylon Bee’s joke that Rick ‘Rachel’ Levine is a man, it wouldn’t have been heard by all the tens of millions who have laughed at it since then. Vimeo’s decision to censor his talk just means that its message and ours will spread even wider and further. Big Tech still hasn’t learned that the more it tries to censor us, the more the truth will be heard.
As disturbing as this is to read, I only need keep my eyes and ears open to see how My Fellow Americans excel at doing the exact thing voluntarily THEMSELVES.
Censoring out all unwanted facts and opinions; canceling relationships due to disagreements over same; people seem to be either conditioned by Big Tech to become living echo-chambers, OR (more likely) the simple fact is, Big Tech is just echoing what people themselves routinely do every day in ordinary life.
Me, over the years I’ve steadily withdrawn from people simply because you can NEVER have any sort of in-depth, intelligent discussion with them. No matter how polite, civil, whatever you are, it always boils down to GD IT DON’T SAY ANYTHING I DON’T WANT TO HEAR.
How many former long time friends have we all lost?
I agree I agree. If its not politics and their total lack of facts, then it’s their increased anti-Semitism- rising from the bowels of their ancestor’s DNA maybe, IDK.?
I have decided to be happy going it alone.
Or their condescending arrogance.
I feel the same way you do, but the truth is we are NOT alone. The united powers of the Left have been very successful in making us believe we are, but we are not.
For my own little part, I do not shut up, even though my natural tendency is to withdraw socially. I have had mixed reactions as I train myself not to “absorb” the negativity but to see it as a positive exposure of evil.
Anti-semitism is “in our DNA” only to the extent that satanic evil dwells there. Satan HATES Christians and Jews. If it were in our DNA, then certainly there would not be so many Jews who support their own destruction.
I think the answer to the hatred is human nature bereft of the knowledge and acknowledgement of God.
I think that last sentence needs work. But I could be wrong.
I have not lost any long time friends because I connected with good friends early on.
And, I evaluate people quickly. Friendly I might be, but new friends are few and far between.
BO’s remarks about “America’s DNA.” My blood boils. Demons beckon me.
I told a joke with an original solution in 1985. Can I still tell a censored version of it today? Why was —- —— buried upside down?
I don’t know, why was _____ buried upside down?
I don’t know either, but I’m either envious or resentful of the 6 people who upvoted him.
Because apparently they GOT IT.
Somehow.
Me, I just wanted to insert “Jimmy Hoffa” in there for some reason. Though I still couldn’t figure out the punch line…
Bobby Knight. “So all my critics can kill my ass.”
“pre-censorship”
I call it “self-censorship” and do it all the time now, being surrounded by you-know-who. For me, a matter of survival.
FIGHT, Algo!
Yours is a ruthlessly logical, sane, well-reasoned voice.
The criminalization of dissent is a cultural Marxism tool. Therefore we can conclude that the warfare on American thought comes from the embedded Marxists. Biden’s puppetmaster is Obama. Draw a conclusion from this and the recent revelations of government interference in social media for political ends.
When does conservative views ever ban leftist views?
Hardly is the word We are outnumbered by their infiltrated culture.
By them banning us, they should not speak to us about free speech. They could categorize all they want, the most violent rhetoric comes from the Left
Google also censors. I no longer have gmail. Drawing and sending cartoons mocking (gently) the newly elected Biden was my crime.
Obviously, man of the year is too nuanced. Give him the biggest dick of the year award and it should all be fine.
Big Mike has that distinction!
Don’t tempt our own beloved Jeff Bargholz!
IMAGINE THIS ONE: THE HALLS OF CONGRESS
Pelosi, Maxine, Dr. Jill, Kamala, Omar, and AOC, (add school boards, NCAA, etc) are walking down the hall, for a bathroom break, after a tense meeting where they all voiced their support to allow Trans into bathrooms, locker rooms, and to allow them to play in all women’s sports. DR. RACHEL LEVINE/Trans rushes ahead of them to hold the door open for them…. (GET YOUR CAMERA READY… SMILE, YOU’RE ON CANDID CAMERA). None of them enter and say they’re in a hurry to get to their offices as they quickly look at their phones. They walk by. BINGO!
IMAGINE AGAIN: (Camera inside the bathroom, ACTION!) They all walk in, and Dr. Rachel Levine/Trans is standing there. (SMILE!). He… oops, I’m in trouble… SHE goes into a stall, stands there splashing, missing. BINGO!
IMAGINE AGAIN: Some of the Congresswomen/board members, are in the locker after a workout in the gym. They are undressing to take a shower, Dr. Rachel Levine/Trans walks in. (SMILE!) BINGO!
Now, back to the meeting. You question all of them about their support, they agree…. THEN THE VIDEO. CATCH THEM! They can’t counter!
THAT’S HOW YOU END THIS MADNESS!
When you have the time, review the vocabulary of NEWSPEAK George Orwell came up with in 1949 for his most famous novel and tell me we’re not living in ‘1984’ at present.
Yes. What did Andy Warhol say about like imitating art?
Make that “Life” imitating Art. Sorry…
Remember, in a leftist commie Marxist society, there’s no room for humor of any kind. No comedians, no Babylon Bee, etc. Sounds like such a happy place to live.
I’ve found myself recently watching old reruns of Americas Funniest Home videos which I never watched when it was in prime time. However, I didn’t need to watch it way back then becuz our culture was full of humor from sitcoms to the cartoons on tv and in newspapers. Unfortunately, those days are gone and we need humor terribly!
If we can’t laugh, we’ll all be crying. We’ve reached that point. How sad!
The worst censorship is self-censorship. “He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” – Thomas Paine
Vimeo, another One bites the dust, too bad that rumble is such a rudimentary platform.
Big shame also that Twitter and Facebook & insta are such shit holes of mediocrity.
Thank you for all you do!
He’s funny and I’m glad that the Babylon bee exists.
Why can’t Rumble get it together?
Money presumably, Goolag gets theirs from Pfizer and other global oligarchs.
It all boils down to the word TRUTH. JOHN 3:20. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come into the light, lest his works should be exposed.. But whoever lives by truth, comes into the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God. The evil is reflected in showing us that evil flees the light of transparency and honesty,
The cowards at Breitbart will censor your use of Big Mike.
This is horrible!!! The USA should let anyone speak!!! This should make everyone bad!!!
I mean these people they don’t know to fight. They don’t know how to fight.
Smoking the weed that is allegedly harmless again?
I mean these fags who have nothing
I mean. like we’re supposed to respect them????”!!!!!!!!!! Sorry
The guy’s a fag like Trump. Same deal.
They don;t want the overhead of empire anymore but they’re so resentful of the fact they’re no longer relevant with our beautiful socialist system they have to take it out on America.
Nobody can have as much self-love as Trump and not be slightly gay.
I’m just telling you.
this is way past pre-Trump America and you’re all in so you should know.
Sorr,y, I can’t believe this what I had to say. It should be removed. I would appreciate if it was removed. I just don’t know where we go from here. I just don’t know. Can only apologise as worthless as that is.
If I really thought that way I wouldn’t be here. It’s painful to read.
These comments are not worthy of appearance Daniel. I just don;t know what to do.
Speaking of censorship, what happened to the recent article about the Chinese brothels placed in strategic locations near government / military bases?
It just disappeared.
Remember, that the entire commitment to censorship is to destroy MAGA, which is the Deep State’s singular threat against their movement to eliminate 90% of humanity and control the other 10%. It’s really that simple, that binary, and that barbaric.
George Washington had, very wisely, declared, “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.”
It might be time to start communicating in code as Radio London did with the French Underground. The widespread shutting down of certain thoughts and ideas is just a prelude to a totalitarian occupation,
I don’t have enough words to express what feel now.
Dear Fellow Americans,
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A Displaced Teacher And An American Who Cares,
Jennifer A. Luznar 🙂
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Islam has been a scourge on humanity for 1400 years.
Enough already.
So my guess is that Vimeo is fine with posting videos of people calling for the destruction of the only Jewish nation in the world and the murder of its inhabitants but draws the line at calling a man who likes to dress up as a woman a man. Got it.
Put the video up on Rumble
Y’all keep posting on liberal websites/platforms, then are surprised when they ban you. It’s not rocket science. Stop supporting leftist websites/platforms.
C.S. Lewis (Screwtape Letters):
“We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.”
A society that forbids you to make fun of absurd self-serving demands is a society that is working to bring you hell on earth..
The left will only allow news that passes Big Brothers Approval
One day speaking truth will be a revolutionary act…. That day has arrived folks…