Seth Dillon here, CEO of the Bee. I wanted to give you a quick update, as a lot has happened in the past few weeks that impacts our business—some positive, some negative. I’ve got a lot of ground to cover, but I’ll try to break it up into pieces and keep it brief.
Victory Against The New York Times
As Kyle announced in a recent email, we had a big win against The New York Times. In response to our demand letter, they removed their defamatory statements about us and updated the offending article with a correction. The significance of this can’t be overstated. If those statements had stayed in print, the social networks (and other vendors we work with) could have used them against us, citing them as cause for terminating our accounts. Instead, there’s now a ton of media coverage highlighting the fact that it was The New York Times—not us—that had been trafficking in misinformation.
A big, heartfelt “thank you” to all of our subscribers and supporters who helped make this win possible. We couldn’t succeed in these efforts without your prayers, encouragement, and financial support.
Facebook and the New Line of Attack
Facebook recently announced they’ll be moderating satire to make sure it doesn’t “punch down.” Anything that punches down—that is, anything that takes aim at protected targets Facebook doesn’t want you joking about—doesn’t qualify as “true satire.” In fact, they’ve made it clear they’ll consider jokes that “punch down” to be hatred disguised as satire. They write: “Indeed, humor can be an effective mode of communicating hateful ideas.”
Mere days after this announcement was made, Slate published a piece accusing us of having a “nasty tendency to punch down.” This is not a coincidence. Having failed in their effort to lump us in with fake news, the media and Big Tech are looking for new ways to work together to deplatform us. They now hope to discredit us by saying we’re spreading hatred—rather than misinformation—under the guise of satire.
But we’re not “punching down.” We’re punching back. Conservatives have been on the ropes in the culture war for a long time. We’re in a defensive posture, fighting back against the top-down tyranny of the left’s progressive agenda that destroys everything it touches. That agenda is fueled and furthered by all the nation’s most powerful people, corporations, and institutions. If that’s not punching up, I don’t know what is.
More importantly, the left’s new prohibition of “punching down” is speech suppression in disguise. It’s people in positions of power protecting their interests by telling you what you can and cannot joke about. Comedians who self-censor in deference to that power are themselves a joke.
The Chumps at Mailchimp
In case you missed it, Mailchimp suspended our email service this week. They cited “harmful information” as the reason for the suspension, but said it was a mistake and quickly reinstated our account.
For a long time now, Mailchimp has been exercising viewpoint discrimination under the guise of protecting the public from harmful misinformation. We have no interest in staying on a platform that’s looking for excuses to censor us by literally scanning the content of our emails. The reversal in this case gives us no confidence that it won’t happen again, and perhaps the suspension will be permanent next time. So we’re moving on to an email service provider that actually values free expression.
So What’s Next?
We’re going to keep making jokes on the internet. And we’re going to keep punching back—not down—at the left’s progressive agenda and their endless efforts to silence us.
Will you team up with us in that effort? It’ll be like when they assembled all the Avengers and finally defeated Thanos. Except no one will die and you’ll get a free coffee table book.
And for those of you who are already subscribers — THANK YOU. You are keeping us in the fight.
Seth Dillon
CEO
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The BEE is no longer a satire site. The US has simply become a satire nation. They now simply present the trutg.
If the BEE had ratings, and maybe they do, the ratings would be thru the roof. Compare that to the corporate media like CNN whose ratings are plummeting to zero. The Wash Post and NYT papers are getting thinner and thinner. The public knows the truth. Keep fighting Mr. Dillon, until you finally land the knockout blow. It’s only a matter of time.
Seth Dillion is doing God’s work !!!
Don’t give up, Seth. Never give up. Keep fighting.
If I were still a practicing Catholic I would petition Da Pope to make you a Saint.
I think they stay true to their Christian Satire label. They do not take the low road in their satire.
He did an excellent job of explaining the strategy these quasi-government tech giants are using. When Facebook and Twitter can literally command the FBI to harass people for their views, I know who not to trust.
I am going to sub to them. I have been thinking about it (~ $4.16 a month). I am certain I have already gotten my money’s worth out of them.
Dear Seth, I have an idea. Sue em for plagiarism.
What say we do the same thing with “Build Back Better?”
It would be fun if they partially morphed into a 30 or 60 minute TV show.
60 Moments
It would be interesting to see fakebook publish a list of subjects that cannot be made fun of. Of course, they won’t because then they define the fences and not having defined fences gives them latitude to punish their enemies.
It also give them the latitude to apply it to some people/groups while not applying it to other people/groups.
And so far the Bee keeps coming out on top. All satire is based on reality.
And the Bee has shown they are absolute masters at satire.
The Bee has some stiff competition from the Bidens and Schumers and Pelosis
not to mention all the wokesters.
You have to pity the Babylon Bee guys. Finding ways to exaggerate the insanity of the communists is increasingly impossible.
The People’s Cube has been on this for years. The guy running the site was a former Soviet propagandist. I’d bet you some cheap homebrew vodka strained through a sock he’s mortified how this country has circled the drain since he ran away from Russia.
I guess it kinda proves running doesn’t matter ….. because eventually you just die tired.
BB, set the example. Close your Fascistbook account and then do an article on it. Your continued presence on their site only emboldens them. Same goes for everyone else who keeps their accounts.
Does anyone have biographical info on Seth Dillon? One should be suspicious of successful conservatives who have effective lawyers and are named Seth. What greater oxymoron is there than ‘successful conservative’? lol I hope everyone here knows who owns the Unz Review.
Less innuendo and more directness please.