The Babylon Bee has gained over 200,000 followers on Twitter since we were locked out a month ago.

Libs of TikTok has doubled its following on Twitter in a span of just a few weeks, exploding from 600,000 followers to 1.2 million.

These are stats for my personal account. The last couple of days far exceed typical growth.

This is the best explanation for the uptick in followers for large conservative accounts. People who'd left Twitter are returning in droves. And people who'd never joined are checking it out. I don't see any reason to think it has to do with the lifting of shadow bans.

Babylon Bee skit mocks Twitter employees as sensitive, gets flagged by Twitter for ‘sensitive content’

https://www.foxnews.com/media/babylon-bee-skit-twitter-employees-flagged-sensitive-content

People don't seem to realize that Musk doesn't own Twitter yet. Twitter merely accepted his bid. He's not actively running the company and making decisions about which policies should change or which accounts should be restored.

But if we allow free speech someone's feelings might get hurt.

If you hate young people and want them to suffer psychologically for the rest of their lives, you'll teach them to value safety and comfort over truth and character.

His first truth.

Too much safety can be dangerous.

False claims should be refuted, so it makes sense (in theory, at least) to have fact checkers. But in practice they're a bunch of pathetic propagandists, and their bogus refutations aren't just offered as responses to false claims, but as reasons for silencing whoever made them.

"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental . . . they are deliberate exercises in doublethink."

We aren't deleting our tweet, and we shouldn't be required to. Twitter can delete it if they don't like it. We refuse to censor ourselves and do the tyrant's work for him.

I love that he mocked us right before he defended us. And I mean that sincerely. Free speech means no one should be exempt from mockery. Bill Maher gets that, which is why he's an outlier on the ultra-sensitive Left.

https://twitter.com/joelwberry/status/1520254034527272961?s=21&t=iieCgDxj1i0F42bWRUcvpQ

This attack on Tucker Carlson would have been far more effective if they hadn’t thoroughly diluted the meaning of the word “racist” by applying it without exception to everyone they don’t like.

Gruesome story, but an important reminder that gender is bone deep.

https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1519802439054110720?s=21&t=wYkV-exI1h4hjfIWg3UB5g

I would like to report misinformation.

Putting tampons in boys’ bathrooms only proves that girls can’t become boys.

The Great Surge appears to have subsided.

The point is that neither side should seek to “control” discourse in this country.