This week we learned that our video hosting provider, Vimeo, had suspended the David Horowitz Freedom Center after it decided that Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon’s talk was “hate speech”.

Seth Dillon had discussed the Babylon Bee’s fight against censorship after Twitter suspended its account for a joke that named Rick ‘Rachel’ Levine, a transgender Biden administration official, as its ‘Man of the Year’.

That Orwellian act of censorship was described as one of the most “consequential” moments in the anti-woke struggle against Big Tech and helped lead to Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter.

A year after Twitter was ridiculed and then taken over for classifying Babylon Bee’s humor as hate speech, Vimeo sent out a letter announcing “Seth Dillon – The Babylon Bee was removed for Hate Speech.“ The letter refused to name anything hateful that had been said or to specify what in the talk triggered the ban.

Seth Dillon shared our article on X which got a response from Elon Musk.

The David Horowitz Freedom Center remains committed to free speech and to airing the ideas that the corporate and cultural wokes who have overrun Big Tech want to suppress. And we appreciate Seth Dillon and Elon Musk’s support for free speech. Together we can all stand up and refuse to be censored, silenced, and suppressed.

As a result of Vimeo’s censorship, the company lost paid users who have announced that they are leaving over its lack of free speech. And Seth’s talk at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Restoration Weekend will be far more widely viewed than it would have on Vimeo.

Vimeo and the woke ideology it sought to enforce have already lost.

X users quickly noted the irony of the Freedom Center being censored for a talk about censorship.

Others announced that they were dumping Vimeo.

Some X users felt like it was a story out of the Babylon Bee, but that’s just life now