. >> and our offending tweet was, "the babylon bee's man of the year is rachel levine."an, was a nice honor. >> jacoby: the babylon bee had mocked the nation's highest-ranking transgender official, admiral rachel levine, by awarding her the title "man of the year," a violation of twitter's misgendering policy at the time. >> elon musk took issue with the, the banning of the babylon bee. you know, they were taken off because they, i guess, misgendered one of biden's appointees, a, you know, a trans appointee. and i could see why people would think that's offensive. but we've protected comedy in this country for a long time, even when it's incredibly offensive, precisely because, you know, that's where a lot of social change happens. if you start making it ban-able to, to say the wrong thing, you're, you're going to not have comedy soon. >> you know, it's just a joke, and, and they're, they're asking us to basically bend the knee and say, "we admit that this is hateful conduct. please keep us on your platform." and we're not going to do that. >> in the case of the babylon