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How does a satire comedy website find itself on the front lines of the debate over free speech online? Seth Dillon and his team at the Babylon Bee,tell the story of they unwittingly found themselves at war with Twitter over a joke, eventually garnering the attention of Elon Musk and ushering in a new era for the social media company. The future of comedy and free speech on the internet are all at stake and in the hands of a couple of jokesters and satirists.
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00:01Our entire business model is to write funny articles and put them on Facebook and Twitter.
00:07And all of a sudden Facebook has crushed us, Twitter has removed us.
00:10Nobody can log into the Twitter account anymore, we can't post anything.
00:13It's like, what's going on?
00:14We've got a choice to make. They want us to delete this tweet.
00:17It's this penance that you have to do, like go click delete on the tweet and say five hail Twitters
00:23or whatever.
00:23Twitter is the best website of all time!
00:25People need to be willing to make jokes that they're not supposed to make.
00:29Because if they can't, then they're not really free.
00:31This isn't a platform for pre-expression without barriers.
00:33I'm Kyle with the Babylon Bee.
00:35Yeah, we're still in Twitter jail.
00:37We received a DM from Elon Musk.
00:39He asked what our plan was.
00:40Oh, you're going to delete the tweet and then...
00:43Well, maybe I'll just buy Twitter.
00:44Oh yeah, Twitter.
00:47I thought it was a joke, you know, like he wasn't really seriously considering buying Twitter because of this problem.
00:55But apparently he was.
00:59It was a great to do, of
01:00So I can agree with your Alexa sell it to the professors.
01:01Maybe you didn't want to have a interface or experience?
01:01Let go!
01:01Okay, thanks.
01:01Oh, and then?
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