Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon has parted ways with the popular email marketing company Mailchimp after the satirical website's account was suspended.
FOX News reports Dillon took to Twitter and shared a screenshot of an email he had received from Mailchimp notifying him that Babylon Bee was suspended for "violating our Standard Terms of Use and Acceptable Use Policy."
I’d email everyone to let them know @Mailchimp just suspended our account but Mailchimp just suspended our account. pic.twitter.com/vrcca5Vjwt
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) June 24, 2021
"I’d email everyone to let them know @Mailchimp just suspended our account but Mailchimp just suspended our account," Dillon tweeted.
Mailchimp was quick to respond to Dillon's tweet, which was sparking backlash against the company among Babylon Bee fans.
Well, it may be too little, too late for Mailchimp to salvage its financial ties to Babylon Bee.
"Thank you, but we're moving to an email service provider that doesn't make these 'mistakes,'" Dillon replied to Mailchimp. He added, "We'd also prefer to be on a platform that doesn't censor conservatives for being ‘hateful’ or 'misinformative.'"
Dillon explained to Fox News that Mailchimp was never specific as to why the Bee's account was suspended in the first place but that the email service later told Dillion an "automated system" flagged the account over alleged "harmful information" and that the account was manually reinstated.
"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," Dillon told Fox News.
"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."
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