You don't take this much flak unless you're hitting something REALLY important
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.
Just an update from the Babylon Bee on how aggressively the left is attempting to censor a satire site.
Satire is an extremely effective weapon when wielded correctly so combine the fact that the folks at the BB know how to use their satire with just how soft a target the left is and the BB is filleting the left even faster and more effectively than I can go through a cooler of fish after a good day fishing.
Now combine how effective the BB is with the fact that liberals are totally and utterly devoid of a sense of humor and the left is beyond enraged, with their hatred for the BB exceeding their combined hatred for President Trump and Fox News.
But what can men do against such reckless hate?
Simple - satire back even harder - which is what the BB is doing.
And you can help them fight back by subscribing, donating what you can and making sure to spread their articles far and wide so as to ensure that as many people as possible are pointing their fingers at the left and saying "ha ha!"