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The Byron York Show

Twitter, Free Speech, and The Babylon Bee. A Talk With CEO Seth Dillon

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In today's podcast, Byron is joined by the CEO of The Babylon Bee, Seth Dillon. They discuss everything from how The Bee had a small part in Elon Musk's Twitter takeover to what viewpoint discrimination actually is. Dillon also gives us insight into why his company decided to take a stand against censorship. And he reminds us that when you have to justify a joke, the joke is dead.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the No-Chit Chat Podcast.

0:09.6

We like to get right into it, and what we're going to get into today is an interview.

0:13.4

It's an interview about humor, it's about freedom of speech, and it's about the importance

0:19.1

of social media.

0:20.1

And we're going to talk to Seth Dillon, who is the CEO of the Babylon Bee.

0:25.7

It's a really, really funny website, sure you're familiar with.

0:29.8

It's a really funny Twitter feed, too, if you could read it, which you can't.

0:34.6

You cannot read anything new on the Babylon Bee because Twitter has locked up its account

0:40.9

for more than a month now for engaging in what Twitter characterized as hate speech.

0:46.9

It's a completely, completely baseless charge, but there it is.

0:52.0

And the interesting thing is that the fate of the Babylon Bee, the current condition of

0:57.9

the Babylon Bee that is being in Twitter jail, seems to have played a small part in Elon

1:03.6

Musk's decision to purchase Twitter, a small part in a very, very big deal.

1:11.0

So I talked to Seth Dillon, CEO of the Babylon Bee about that, and about a lot of other things

1:17.2

that they've gone through in the past, efforts from social media organizations and from

1:23.0

traditional media organizations to infringe on the job that they do, creating this really,

1:29.2

really funny website, the Babylon Bee.

1:31.7

So let's start it right now and talk to Seth Dillon, thanks so much for joining us.

1:37.6

Thanks for having me on.

1:38.4

The news that everybody is talking about now is Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, which

1:46.1

is particularly important because as we speak, the Babylon Bee remains locked out of tweeting

1:54.6

still in Twitter jail.

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