Twitter Just Shot Themselves In The Foot: Milo Yiannopoulos Banned

[benjipwns]

I don't know how much you know about totalitarian regressive left culture, I'm an expert:

With the cowardly suspension of my account, Twitter has confirmed itself as a safe space for Muslim terrorists and Black Lives Matter extremists, but a no-go zone for conservatives.

Twitter is holding me responsible for the actions of fans and trolls using the special pretzel logic of the left. Where are the Twitter police when Justin Bieber’s fans cut themselves on his behalf?

Like all acts of the totalitarian regressive left, this will blow up in their faces, netting me more adoring fans. We’re winning the culture war, and Twitter just shot themselves in the foot.

This is the end for Twitter. Anyone who cares about free speech has been sent a clear message: you’re not welcome on Twitter.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/twitter-just-permanently-suspended-conservative-writer-milo?utm_term=.rkMYZ9l26#.moEqWo9Jd

After years of provocation, Twitter has permanently banned Milo Yiannopoulos from its service.

But this week he went too far. According to Twitter, it was Yiannopoulos who led the harassment campaign against Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones — an effort that inspired the SNL cast member’s decision to leave Twitter. The tweets, many of which targeted Jones for being black and a woman, were the final straw for Twitter, which is working to try to solve its harassment problem.

People should be able to express diverse opinions and beliefs on Twitter. But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others. Over the past 48 hours in particular, we’ve seen an uptick in the number of accounts violating these policies and have taken enforcement actions against these accounts, ranging from warnings that also require the deletion of Tweets violating our policies to permanent suspension.

We know many people believe we have not done enough to curb this type of behavior on Twitter. We agree. We are continuing to invest heavily in improving our tools and enforcement systems to better allow us to identify and take faster action on abuse as it’s happening and prevent repeat offenders. We have been in the process of reviewing our hateful conduct policy to prohibit additional types of abusive behavior and allow more types of reporting, with the goal of reducing the burden on the person being targeted. We’ll provide more details on those changes in the coming weeks.

http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/07/19/breaking-milo-suspended-twitter-20-minutes-party/

Supporters of Milo, who had more than 338,000 followers on Twitter prior to his suspension, have created the #FreeMilo and #FreeNero hashtags on the platform in protest at Twitter’s latest attack on the conservative commentator. It is currently accumulating approximately 20-30 tweets a minute. Unless Twitter artificially suppresses the hashtag, it’s likely to stay trending throughout the night.

[D3RANG3D]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1249278

 

[benjipwns]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1249278

 

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=210657894&postcount=465

yay somebody else saw it

[Joe Molotov]

Where's his safe space?  :'(

[Madrun Badrun]

Someday I'll be famous enough to be banned from twitter. 

[Syph]

Top tier reference

GAF thread is brutal though goddamn how the mighty have fallen
Milo on the other hand is entertaining as ever

[Mr Gilhaney]

Milo isn't very entertaining, just a cunt.  Which I guess can be fun, but other cunts are way funnier and triggers gaf just as badly.

Anyway tweeting that much about ghostbusters should get anyone banned from the internet.

[Trent Dole]

From what I've read of him dude offers nothing of substance and just hurls cheap insults at people who have different opinions than his, how dare they! Trolling/Getting thrown out of Amber Rose's Million Slut March is pretty funny though.

[Kara]

[Take My Breh Away]

[VomKriege]

Didn't he have a flock of unpaid / barely paid interns to wreite his material ?

[Brehvolution]

Nothing of value was lost.

[Positive Touch]

Didn't he have a flock of unpaid / barely paid interns to wreite his material ?

yeah a bunch of the columns he shit out were first wrote by various neo nazi garbage dump hangers-on

if you wanna laugh at a bunch of scummy crybabies today, please check out the #FreeMilo tag

[qq more]

Remember, this is the same person who ran all the way to the White House to complain he lost his blue checkmark on Twitter!!!

[Joe Molotov]

Remember, this is the same person who ran all the way to the White House to complain he lost his blue checkmark on Twitter!!!

The 1 Milo Man March

[Yulwei]

I'm glad of it

[brob]

[kick51]

Oh wow, he actually said "shot themselves in the foot"

Kinda love how corrupted that phrase is now 

[Kara]

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The GOAT account.

[PlayDat]

I'm following close to a thousand accounts on Twitter, yet I'm not very familiar with this guy.  Seems like Twitter took a step in the right direction, but they (and most other social sites) have a long way to go when it comes to curbing hate speech.  I don't see how anyone can derive any entertainment from a professional jerk.  These kinds of people don't deserve a platform.

[qq more]

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The GOAT account.

Wint is the Dark Souls The Simpsons of Twitter shitposting.

[Mr Gilhaney]

So perhaps what’s needed now is a bolder form of censure after all, because the internet is not a universal human right. If people cannot be trusted to treat one another with respect, dignity and consideration, perhaps they deserve to have their online freedoms curtailed. For sure, the best we could ever hope for is a smattering of unpopular show trials. But if the internet, ubiquitous as it now is, proves too dangerous in the hands of the psychologically fragile, perhaps access to it ought to be restricted. We ban drunks from driving because they’re a danger to others. Isn’t it time we did the same to trolls?

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/yiannopoulos/3359/the-internet-is-turning-us-all-into-sociopaths/


 

[chronovore]

Oh wow, he actually said "shot themselves in the foot"

Kinda love how corrupted that phrase is now 

How is the phrase corrupted? I am not really all that up on current events.

[Rufus]

Oh wow, he actually said "shot themselves in the foot"

Kinda love how corrupted that phrase is now 

How is the phrase corrupted? I am not really all that up on current events.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11960243

[Positive Touch]

So perhaps what’s needed now is a bolder form of censure after all, because the internet is not a universal human right. If people cannot be trusted to treat one another with respect, dignity and consideration, perhaps they deserve to have their online freedoms curtailed. For sure, the best we could ever hope for is a smattering of unpopular show trials. But if the internet, ubiquitous as it now is, proves too dangerous in the hands of the psychologically fragile, perhaps access to it ought to be restricted. We ban drunks from driving because they’re a danger to others. Isn’t it time we did the same to trolls?

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/yiannopoulos/3359/the-internet-is-turning-us-all-into-sociopaths/


 

or social media could just, you know, ban trolls? or maybe they could take it a step further and get really wild by booting people for hate speech? crazy suggestions, i know

[Trent Dole]

IF I CAN'T ADVOCATE FOR HORRIBLE VIOLENT DEATHS OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T LOOK LIKE ME/I DISAGREE WITH YOU ARE RUINING MY FREEDOMS

[T-Short]

This is a pretty nice write-up:

https://medium.com/welcome-to-the-scream-room/im-with-the-banned-8d1b6e0b2932#.emei7c951

edit: I see Joe posted it in the politics thread already. Sorry mang

[Great Rumbler]

This is a pretty nice write-up:

https://medium.com/welcome-to-the-scream-room/im-with-the-banned-8d1b6e0b2932#.emei7c951

So...Milo is basically a real-life version of The Joker?

[VomKriege]

Oh so that's where the photos of Wilders doing a speech in front of pics male teens half nude with caps came from...

Also mainstream journalists brought down to tears by bigotry and Twitter celebrities behaving exactly like you'd expect.

[Sho Nuff]

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Holy fucking shit, golden

[toku]

http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/07/milo-yiannopoulos-and-the-gay-fascist-sophisticate.html

[Momo]

He's that twat that takes obnoxious positions to get under people's skin yes? Fucking pity that he is named after one of my favourite drinks.

[chronovore]

 The biggest disappointment in responses to this, for me, is the continued diatribe over "free speech" when in fact any place with in terms of service is not subject to anything of the sort. You're in their playground. Just because Twitter has been a complete shithead about their hate speech policing until now doesn't mean they're going to continue to be. I hope they been the shit out of a bunch of idiots 

[VomKriege]

http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/07/milo-yiannopoulos-and-the-gay-fascist-sophisticate.html

“I’m a queer black survivor, and I’m going to work at Goldman Sachs next year!”

 

[kick51]

http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/07/milo-yiannopoulos-and-the-gay-fascist-sophisticate.html

wait....

The subject of the gay fascist is, unsurprisingly, a sensitive one. Real-life fascist regimes mercilessly persecuted homosexuals, and any empirical connection between homosexuality and fascism is tenuous, despite what Christian conspiracy theorists and gay contrarians might have you believe. The gay fascist is a real historical figure — for instance, the French critic Robert Brasillach or the SA leader Ernst Röhm — but, more significantly, it’s a cultural trope, familiar from films such as Luchino Visconti’s The Damned and novels such as Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones. In these works of fiction, the gay fascist, who is generally debonair, witty, and well-read, is meant to stand in for the cultural afflictions of the society that produced him: decadence, cynicism, sadism; the narcissism and aestheticism of over-civilization; the worship of death and the loss of hope in the future (associations all courted by Milo with his Twitter name, Nero).

ah, JRPG antagonists!