How's this for a timeline?

Sept 2021: Texas passes a law (HB 20) to protect free speech by limiting Big Tech's ability to censor based on viewpoint.

Sept 2021: Two trade groups representing Big Tech immediately filed suit to try and block the law.

Dec 2021: An Obama-appointed judge ruled in favor of Big Tech, blocking the law from going into effect. In his ruling, he said it would be unconstitutional to put limits on the ability of social media platforms to moderate content as they see fit.

March 2022: Twitter locks out the Babylon Bee for making a joke they didn't like.

Sept 2022: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the earlier decision on HB 20, saying the law is constitutional because it chills censorship, not speech.

October 2022: The Babylon Bee sues Twitter.

This is an excellent recap of how we got here.

https://t.co/d9OYCEKkF4

Probably won’t even lose his license.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1572253301940563971?s=46&t=LC3pa5HXsKT9s8Ci3uBy0Q

Censoring lewd or obscene content is perfectly acceptable. The problem is that Twitter would rather censor criticism of such content.

Imagine being so unspeakably evil that you not only fail to defend children, but viciously smear anyone who does.

Monsters like @Esqueer_ will not rest until everyone who opposes the corruption, exploitation, sexualization, and physical abuse of children has been silenced. That’s their only objective. We must be as determined to protect God’s children as they are to manipulate and maim them.

Somehow I’m stuck in coach where armrests are shared and they don’t serve drinks before takeoff. So I’m completely sober while another man’s arm grazes mine.

They haven’t shut down the clinic — just the website. They scurry deeper into the shadows whenever we turn on the lights.

Biden vibes.

The Left wants to mutilate as many kids as possible. We want to stop them. It’s that simple.

Every hospital mutilating children will be exposed—we will make sure of that—and soon states across the country will begin to outlaw these barbaric procedures.

Great work, Matt Walsh. We're just getting started.

If you're openly against pedophilia, PayPal will permanently ban you. If you're openly for pedophilia, Paypal will gladly serve you.

You take jokes a little too seriously, Ben. And I think you meant "accepted."

The best they can do is shout “terrorism!” repeatedly in the hopes of getting us banned. They have no arguments, no strategy, no moral high ground — just blind rage and disdain for healthy kids.

How long before the fact-checkers lie and call this misinformation?

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1573376694802595842?s=46&t=tSJH5Bl_D851FLL9IBDd6A

If they stand by it, why delete it?

This was a particularly dangerous joke. Thank you, Facebook, for keeping us all safe!

To say that abortion isn't wrong because it's legal is like saying slavery wasn't wrong because it was legal. If the law presently fails to protect the most fundamental right of the most innocent and vulnerable among us, then the law must be changed.

The problem isn’t that satire is too close to reality; it’s that reality is too close to satire.

Same with trans.