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Twitter has just banned Milo Yiannopoulos permanently
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Maybe they are so outraged that they decide to boycot twitter :3
Permanently A
Junior Member
Ah, I didn't know there was a whole script people followed. I honestly just wanted to know what he did. I'm familiar with Gamergate but not so much how this guy factors into it.
11 pages is a lot of reading man
eBay Huckster
Member
if only we could be so lucky
LOL there's no way they'll do that. Those people crave a megaphone.
Corronchilejano
Member
Can't wait to hear how much free speech is being lost on twitter because you can't send your followers to harass someone.
My post was a generalization of sorts but as far as my experience with these things goes, the Persona fanbase tends to attract more moderate people, while SMT gravitates towards a public where hate speech can bloom. Also, GAF is an outlier when it comes to these things, mods are usually ruthless to bigots so there's not even space for that kind of thing (not that I'm complaining, of course). But I digress
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Deleted member 80556
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You're not even kidding. I can't believe only a high profile case like this made them do something like this, but I'm not even surprised. Despite what Twitter says, it really doesn't seem like they give a crap about people who are harassed.
shadowsdarknes
Member
Good of Leslie for fighting back and taking a stand on Twitter.
So many people act like racism is hardly a big deal and it's ultimately not that prevalent, but Twitter shows that it clearly is prevalent.
Far too many people telling her to just walk away and let the trolls do their thing until they tire out.
Good on her to fight back. I'm not sure if I'd have the energy and mental capacity to not walk away.
So many people act like racism is hardly a big deal and it's ultimately not that prevalent, but Twitter shows that it clearly is prevalent.
Far too many people telling her to just walk away and let the trolls do their thing until they tire out.
Good on her to fight back. I'm not sure if I'd have the energy and mental capacity to not walk away.
This describes a lot of how I feel as well. "Non-platforming," doesn't really have anything to do with this, it's about harassment and hate speech.
Already Torn
Banned
In this thread, saying Milo can't be blamed for what others did.
Silver Arrows
Banned
My post was a generalization of sorts but as far as my experience with these things goes, the Persona fanbase tends to attract more moderate people, while the SMT one gravitates towards a public where hate speech can bloom. Also, GAF is an outlier when it comes to these things, mods are usually ruthless to bigots so there's not even space for that kind of thing (not that I'm complaining, of course). But I digress
From my interactions with the Persona fandom outside of GAF and Tumblr, it generally attracts the seedier side of the anime fandom, the sort of people who legitimately argue over waifus, usually are apart of the new alt-right.
radios shipping overview
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My post was a generalization of sorts but as far as my experience with these things goes, the Persona fanbase tends to attract more moderate people, while the SMT one gravitates towards a public where hate speech can bloom. Also, GAF is an outlier when it comes to these things, mods are usually ruthless to bigots so there's not even space for that kind of thing (not that I'm complaining, of course). But I digress
As someone who used to spend a lot of time in communities about weird/hardcore games, I really hate that these are the same communities that foster this kind of bullshittery
RedAssedApe
Banned
i hope leslie called jack out on twitter's bullshit when he asked to dm her
Vicetrailia
Member
Good riddance. He's an oppressor of freedom himself.
Velcro Fly
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ElBoxyBrown
Banned
#freemilo?
More like #yourassisontheblocklistbitch.
More like #yourassisontheblocklistbitch.
Silver Arrows
Banned
Absolutely.
unpopularblargh
Member
Seeing this go down on Twitter (the banning not the harassment campaign) was the best thing to happen to me this week.
Also if Ben Shapiro and the like still have Twitter accounts he can't use the excuse of Twitter being a "safe-space" or "conservative no go zone" or whatever he's trying to say with his pointless woe is me routine.
Also if Ben Shapiro and the like still have Twitter accounts he can't use the excuse of Twitter being a "safe-space" or "conservative no go zone" or whatever he's trying to say with his pointless woe is me routine.
dantevsninjas
Member
And nothing of value was lost. Dude contributed nothing worthwhile, had nothing valuable to say, and was never going to be anything more than human garbage. Just an absolute waste.
EDIT: I spoke too soon, Milo has managed to contribute something of value. The #freemilo hashtag is the absolute best way to find people to avoid at all costs.
EDIT: I spoke too soon, Milo has managed to contribute something of value. The #freemilo hashtag is the absolute best way to find people to avoid at all costs.
They are busy preparing their "I don't know what Gamergate is or who Milo is but......both sides are in the wrong" posts.
Androidsleeps
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I can't anymore with those alt-right types that plagued the internet with their trolling and buzz words and teenage-boy demeanor. They were contained in their basements in 4chan and subreddits but now they're fucking everywhere. I've come across a couple of tweets from this milo and thought he was mocking these types at first but I thought wrong. How ironic.
And wouldn't you know it, his fans are storming twitter now. I hope twitter suppresses the hashtag and just ignore them.
And wouldn't you know it, his fans are storming twitter now. I hope twitter suppresses the hashtag and just ignore them.
Silver Arrows
Banned
And like wolves in the grass they wait for their prey. Which is threads like this.
A Human Becoming
More than a Member
I almost told this guy off last night on Twitter for how he was treating Leslie Jones. Twitter beat me to it.
Eh, it's something every game community has. Games like Pokemon or Call of Duty are hardly "hardcore", yet they still have their nastier parts of the community.
GloriousBagel
Banned
Now, about those Isis accounts
Do you watch game of thrones? You know how Ramsay Bolton is with his hounds? He was that kind of kennel master to his attack dogs.
Waiting patiently to show their asses
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
I'ma grab some popcorn and check out r/KotakuInAction tonight. I need a good laugh.
Anyone who really needs a quick primer on what a piece of work this guy is, completely independent of his Gamergate affiliation, can catch up just by reading through a few pages of his recent Reddit posts, most of which are self-fellating AMAs in places like /The_Donald and /TheRedPill. Here's a sampler platter:
There's endless reams of this stuff on Reddit, on Breitbart, and until recently (whoops), on Twitter. He exists, like Trump, to push himself as a brand, and he does it by appealing directly to the alt-right crowd.
The less of a platform he has, the better a place the world is.
There's endless reams of this stuff on Reddit, on Breitbart, and until recently (whoops), on Twitter. He exists, like Trump, to push himself as a brand, and he does it by appealing directly to the alt-right crowd.
The less of a platform he has, the better a place the world is.
That seems impossible.
Permanently A
Junior Member
I don't, but I get the idea.
the extent of my gamergate knowledge is only that zoe quinn got targeted harassment because people thought she was having sex for positive game reviews and that's where the whole "Ethics in game journalism" happened
when I say familiar I mean I'm aware of the basic concept, not that I know everyone and everything that happened.
A hint: (SPOILERS) https://youtu.be/N9dm5cAurDw?t=225 (SPOILERS)
His seemed to favor targeting women and minorities.
I think with weirder/more obscure games it takes up a larger portion of the fanbase. Like, most people who play Pokemon or CoD are just normal people (or children/teens honestly with those two specific series), but there are weird subsets of the fanbase. But with weird/obscure Japanese games it always seems like a very significant portion of the fanbase is composed of Channers.
It also frustrates me because as a shut-in weirdo guy who's a fan of obscure Japanese games I used to relate to a lot of those fanbases (mostly when I was a teenager) until I realized how awful those people really are.
I was happier not having read this.
God what a piece of shit.
Nowhere near impossible, GamerGate was all over the news at that time and Milo (Thankfully) wasn't. Plenty of people knew what GamerGate was or had some general idea, especially on this board, without ever hearing of Milo.
bobbychalkers
Member
About fucking time!!
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
Same. Good riddance.
Androidsleeps
Member
Wouldn't be surprising. No normal person will spend their time and energy orchestrating attacks/trolling/threats on social media. These trolls have some legit validation and self-worth issues and found a cult to empower them in the internet. They're really caricatures at this point.
Silver Arrows
Banned
Exactly. And there in lies the rub; when it comes to more obscure, very Japanese games (Persona is becoming less of this but the remnants remain) you get those type of people who are indeed toxic little shit stains that get their abilities in interacting with others from the chans.
Again, most of the time I don't see this in places like Tumblr or GAF. But for Persona, I have seen it, and it is quite disgusting.
Gentleman Jack
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So read the article in the OP. It's short.
I can relate, I used to be big into the JoJo and SMT fanbases until I realized that those were basically composed of human garbage and I didn't had to allow these people to reach me with their disgusting reasoning just because of a fucking game.
Silver Arrows
Banned
Yeah. Stuff like SMT/Persona, JoJo, Danganronpa, stuff that is popular but not in the popular zeitgeist are rife with people like that.
Permanently A
Junior Member
I did, it didn't have the proof that Milo was encouraging people to attack her which was linked on the last page after I asked for it
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