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[TestOfTide]

I understand that but you know as well as I that it changes nothing and only ends in a ban.

The person who I shamed and humiliated was never going to change their mind in the first place, so the best one can do is shame and humiliate so they are discouraged from openly being a piece of shit.

 

[Gattsu25]

LOL I have no love for Milo, I just dont see any evidence of him leading a harassment campaign. If someone could post the offending tweet i'd be happy to see him banned.

The end of his harassment campaign against Leslie Jones involved he and his merry gang were creating fake racist tweets directly attacking him, which he would then image quote them back to his horde of alt-right followers who would follow up with racist tweets back at her.

You can see her frantically trying to figure out what is going on and even suspecting that her account got hacked when none of that was really the case.

He knew that none of these tweets were real because none of the tweets actually existed on her or any other account. They were faked because in reality it's just really easy to fake shit on the internet:

Her suffering an absolute torrent of sexist and racist attacks? That was just red meat to his followers.

Edit: Also this...

I'm taken aback there are people who seriously have a problem with Twitter banning Milo fucking Yiannopoulos.

Like is this the hill people really want to die on?

 

[Silver Arrows]

I'm taken aback there are people who seriously have a problem with Twitter banning Milo fucking Yiannopoulos.

Like is this the hill people really want to die on?

It makes for good TV.

 

[Scientist Supreme!]

The people who don't believe he directed Harassment towards Leslie are just as disingenuous as Milo.
This is not even first time he has done something like this, so just be honest and save everyone's time.

 

[LUFTRAUSER]

People asking for evidence is now a Defense Force.

This is too funny.

Not that Milo isn't a complete pos, but still, stop with the nonsense.

Listen. You can go read his tweets. RIGHT NOW. You can google him and see his harassment. RIGHT NOW. The fact that you are willingly not doing that and expect us to essentially diagram out this whole thing for you is your fault.

 

[marrec]

If that's the case, and then that's what people want to know.

I mean it's good that he's banned, I have the misfortune of knowing his name.

But don't make up stuff.

I know that Twitter doesn't have to give evidence for their decisions.

If that's how they want to play it, then it's expected it will not go down well with some people.

They have evidence, we have evidence, but it's an amassed mountain of evidence that isn't just isolated to a single tweet saying "GO MY FOLLOWERS, HARASS PEOPLE"

To ask for such a thing is HILARIOUS to people like me who've been the target of Milo in the past and have seen him target other people over the years.

 

[Bobs Big Boy]

So how long are you going to feign ignorance and pretend that anyone is stupid enough to literally make a public "go harass her guys!" announcement?

What smoking gun are you looking for?

Isn't that what everyone here is calling this?

C'mon it doesn't make it better to launch a hate campaign against Milo in response to a perceived hate campaign.

 

[Dalek]

Here comes the defense force!

 

[Seductivpancakes]

You have people in the world who watch videos of police murdering innocent people, and still think the police are in the right.

So yea, we're gonna have people defending this piece of shit and double down on it with any amount of proof. It's the hill they wanna die on.

 

[Merc_]

I'm taken aback there are people who seriously have a problem with Twitter banning Milo fucking Yiannopoulos.

Like is this the hill people really want to die on?

I can't say I'm surprised he has fans on here. Just think of how past Gamergate and Zoe Quinn threads have gone.

 

[Mesoian]

twittter isnt gonna cut their userbase in half

You ain't wrong.

But what they should do often isn't what they need to do.

 

[jabuseika]

Well Milo sure does

Got me.

 

[Already Torn]

You have people in the world who watch videos of police murdering innocent people, and still think the police are in the right.

So yea, we're gonna have people defending this piece of shit and double down on it with any amount of proof. It's the hill they wanna die on.

#AllVoicesMatter

 

[Silver Arrows]

Isn't that what everyone here is calling this?

C'mon it doesn't make it better to launch a hate campaign against Milo in response to a perceived hate campaign.

Yeah, it kinda does. He doesn't deserve sympathy.

 

[Squalor]

I'm taken aback there are people who seriously have a problem with Twitter banning Milo fucking Yiannopoulos.

Like is this the hill people really want to die on?

They're voting for Trump, so yes.

 

[Christine]

If posting falsely edited tweets is bannable offense then ban him for that. I mean literally anything he posts mentioning another twitter user could be considered a harassment campaign by this logic.

Well, yes, because it is.

 

[marrec]

Edit:

You know what, nevermind.

 

[Sou Da]

Isn't that what everyone here is calling this?

C'mon it doesn't make it better to launch a hate campaign against Milo in response to a perceived hate campaign.

I genuinely can't tell if you're naturally this obtuse or just pretending to try and "win" an argument here. Ya got me.

 

[mp1990]

Good tweet thread on why Twitter allows people like Milo and harassers in general to prevail in their network.

 

[Corpekata]

Isn't that what everyone here is calling this?

C'mon it doesn't make it better to launch a hate campaign against Milo in response to a perceived hate campaign.

C'mon say the words. Invoke them. Be the Both Sides Guy you were born to be.

 

[Acorn]

This is the new culture war, apparently.

To them sure. To everyone else it's Wednesday.

 

[Dalek]

C'mon say the words. Invoke them. Be the Both Sides Guy you were born to be.

 

[Nairume]

Here comes the defense force!

Nah, this is more appropriate

 

[Bobs Big Boy]

Yeah, it kinda does. He doesn't deserve sympathy.

It does not seem he's made a concerted effort to make any kind of campaign out of this. But the one against him seems fairly clear.

 

[Nanashrew]

Isn't that what everyone here is calling this?

C'mon it doesn't make it better to launch a hate campaign against Milo in response to a perceived hate campaign.

Precieved hate campaign? He is a figurehead of GamerGate which is a hate campaign that has harassed, threatened violence, doxxing and swatting. He has outted people in his articles on Brietbart and social media, he has ruined many people's lives and is gleeful about it.

His awfulness goes well beyond GamerGate too, he's had many scandals already of harassing women. He's been doing this stuff for years. Maybe you need to be the one to do some research and not everyone else for you.

 

[Lime]

Truth:

 

[A Link to the Past]

Milo is a legitimately awful person. Which means that of course there's a defense force.

 

[Sianos]

Don't hurt them NSQuote

You're right, I almost lost my cool - I nearly said something politically incorrect! And as we both know, I would have been excommunicated and sent to the shadow realm if I did. There's no need for me to be so aggressi-

So ban those people. I mean Milo is an asshole and if Twitter wants to ban all people that act like assholes on twitter then they can go ahead, but they banned Milo for instigating a harassment campaign, which doesn't seem to be true.

Wow, you sure did read through that twenty-eight thousand word summary of the actions of Milo's harassment campaign awfully quickly.

 

[low-G]

Good on them. People who disrupt the enjoyment of so many on a service should be permabanned. I'm amazed Twitter didn't have the backbone to perma him a long time ago.

 

[gafneo]

I keep telling people that these evils circlulate around the net. It's like satan uses twitter and gathers armies spreading plagues of Angry Joe hate. They wait till it gets to level 10 bad to make a move.

 

[Crimson_Echidna]

Why?

All the trans-phobia, sexism, racism that goes unmodderated. There repeated instances of brigading other subreddits. General hate speech.

 

[Acorn]

C'mon say the words. Invoke them. Be the Both Sides Guy you were born to be.

Also lol @ anyone that defends this loser.

 

[Bobs Big Boy]

Precieved hate campaign? He is a figurehead of GamerGate which is a hate campaign that has harassed, threatened violence, doxxing and swatting. He has outted people in his articles on Brietbart and social media, he has ruined many people's lives and is gleeful about it.

His awfulness goes well beyond GamerGate too, he's had many scandals already of harassment of women. He's been doing this stuff for years. Maybe you need to be the one to do some research and not everyone else for you.

Also have no ideas about GamerGate along with celebrity feuds. Avoid the gossip.

But god damn, let's stop harassing everyone.

 

[Chie Satonaka]

Good tweet thread on why Twitter allows people like Milo and harassers in general to prevail in their network.

Of course this is why.

I love Twitter as a platform, but this shit is completely out of control.

 

[Wilsongt]

Yiannopoulos has responded via his employer’s site, Breitbart.com, calling Twitter’s permanent suspension “cowardly”:

“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.

Oi. If that were the case they'd have banned Trump ages ago. Nimrod.

 

[RedAssedApe]

these type of threads really tell you a lot about some posters

 

[jabuseika]

Good tweet thread on why Twitter allows people like Milo and harassers in general to prevail in their network.

This is what Twitter is now.

Trolls trolling trolls.

And few celebs that get caught in between.

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Took them long enough. Twitter is still a gaping asshole though.

 

[Einchy]

But god damn, let's stop harassing everyone.

And lets defend the people who are harassing everyone.

 

[LUFTRAUSER]

Good tweet thread on why Twitter allows people like Milo and harassers in general to prevail in their network.

I just learned a new term: sea-lioning. I guess it is from this comic?

I see this sort of behavior all the time and I'm glad I have a word for it now.

 

[SlipperyFishes]

Someone get me an appropriate gif. I'm on mobile.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Also have no ideas about GamerGate along with celebrity feuds. Avoid the gossip.

But god damn, let's stop harassing everyone.

You cannot seriously equate Milo and his cronies doxxing, spamming racist/sexist/everything stuff at people on Twitter with people saying "Fuck that dude"

 

[Acorn]

Oi. If that were the case they'd have banned Trump ages ago. Nimrod.

No go place for conservatives sounds like heaven on earth to me.

 

[HariKari]

I keep telling people that these evils circlulate around the net. It's like satan uses twitter and gathers armies spreading plagues of Angry Joe hate. They wait till it gets to level 10 bad to make a move.

Angry Joe hate?

 

[Bear Force One]

Milo is a legitimately awful person. Which means that of course there's a defense force.

So sad to see GAF infected with their brand. It was bad enough with the men's rights and gg fools.

 

[Bobs Big Boy]

And lets defend the people who are harassing everyone.

Let's let them alone to die with their misguided opinions and not fall to their level.

 

[A Link to the Past]

I just learned a new term: sea-lioning. I guess it is from this comic?

I see this sort of behavior all the time and I'm glad I have a word for it now.

Fun fact, GG responded to it by making a small campaign against "anti-GG" by calling them racists, arguing that sea lions in the comic represented minority groups

So sad to see GAF infected with their brand. It was bad enough with the men's rights and gg fools.

It almost makes me suspect that the defense force exists not because there's actually people here to defend him, but because of some cosmic constant that possesses the minds of otherwise decent people and drives them to depravity

 

[eBay Huckster]

It does not seem he's made a concerted effort to make any kind of campaign out of this. But the one against him seems fairly clear.

yeah, don't you guys know? milo is the real victim here

 

[kmfdmpig]

Good. What a disgusting display by the trolls. Is there any hope that this will be a moment of reflection for Twitter regarding blatant harassment and trolling? Free speech is certainly important, but if a user's primary method of communication is racist/sexist harassment of strangers then why not ban them?

 

[Corpekata]

Angry Joe hate?

Yeah I gotta say that threw me for a loop too.