Tucker astounded by reason conservative satire site was fact-checked

so the babylon b is hugely successful because it's great it's one of the few remaining amusing sites on the internet it's really smart so of course big tech hates it and is trying to censor it and prevent people from reading it seth dylan is the ceo of the babylon b is a very successful businessman he probably spends all his time just trying to keep his voice from being stifled seth thanks so much for coming on so what is i know you've been involved in these battles probably every day for months now what are the attempts now to shut you guys down where do i begin uh well i mean it starts with misinformation right i mean we've been fact checked to death uh over and over again it started out with this fact check about cnn purchasing an industrial industrial-sized washing machine so they could spin the news before publication you know when it's just been on and on and on from there we get fact-checked well that wasn't real wasn't real that was a fake story believe it or not um so you know the basically the social networks have been using these fact checkers to you know try to is like under the guise of like trying to control misinformation um it's politically motivated has been the whole time and we're seeing like right now we're seeing a drastic drop in traffic a decline a steady decline over the course of time it started really around the election last year uh well leading into the 2020 election uh and it's just been this steady decline rapid decline we used to drive most of our traffic through facebook we now drive very little of our traffic through facebook uh our articles that used to go crazy viral you repost them now they get like barely any shares at all i joked recently like one of the articles that we shared it got it reached 11 people we have over a million people in our audience it reached 11 people we could reach more people if we printed it out and like nailed it to like a telephone pole in a small town i mean facebook now or the social media companies are specifically going against satire like they're basically saying humor is no longer allowed and they're saying it explicitly yeah well okay so they've made new rules right they have new rules that they're rolling out they've got this new policy satire is allowed they're going to allow satire but there's a catch you can't punch down no punching down is allowed so they've got this new thing uh and how you define punch down punching down i mean look it's like they have all these protected things these sacred cows that they don't want you to joke about they want to control your speech and control what you joke about and i think it's the most condescending thing ever i mean imagine thinking to yourself i can't joke about those people they're beneath me i mean how condescending is that to have that thought go through your head we're not allowed to joke about women because joking about women would be considered punching down it would be hate speech under the guise of satire i don't think women are beneath me so i reject the whole premise that you know there's this that there's it's even possible to really punch down at people who aren't beneath me to begin with but they just perpetuate those stereotypes by enforcing rules like this and it's really just aimed at uh curbing and silencing and ostracizing satire comedy and thinkers that they don't like if you're regulating humor you're i mean you're kind of east germany at that point aren't you oh yeah i mean yeah absolutely look the putting putting your rulers up that's the whole point of satire right it's to it's to punch up it's to speak truth to power uh you know tyrants don't like that it's the thing that they hate more than anything else so you know the fact that they're coming out after us we're actually not punching down we are punching up most the ideas we go after are progressive ideas they're popular ideas they're advanced by celebrities corporations politicians they're coming from the top down we're punching back we're punching back we're not punching down if anybody is fighting the power it's the babylon b and you will succeed in the end because you're smart and we're rooting for you thanks that's thanks so much for coming on thank you hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Id: VmFwBkIWN8o

Length: 3min 50sec (230 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 07 2021