He's a guy with his own small business, that led the opening of new channels. He's an entrepreneur, and he reads as much as the rest of us.
So?
And given his milquetoast no sides analysis, I question how much he's actually informed.
Jesus, some embarrassing replies in this thread. I watched the three videos linked in here and feel like I must have watched the wrong thing. He seems like a perfectly rational person. Here's what I've gleaned from GAF:
On the other side of an issue = you are a terrible human being
Able to see the both sides of an issue, but don't necessarily fully agree with either = you are a terrible human being
Believe everyone has a right to speak their mind without violent protest = terrible human being
Christ. This forum has really become a place unwelcome to any dissent. It's quite disheartening. I think this may be where I stop participating on the forum, which is pretty depressing.
I mean ok, there is a ton of dissent on a ton of issues, like I dunno have you ever been in a protest thread where traffic is involved?
And I find it tough to imagine two sides on Milo and Richard "literal Nazi" Spencer so.
Milo has a history of directly using his platform to harass students, it's not just a speaking his mind issue.
These milquetoast videos bluntly do as much to normalize Milo as potentially even the violence does, because what he does, who he is, is almost always sanitized to "controversial" "opinions I might not agree with", "speaking his mind", there is a total refusal by just about everyone but protesters to really engage with just how hateful this man is.
He's presented as just having a political opinion, he's treated like any other political commentator, which he's frankly not. Again this is a man who got kicked off twitter, a company that allows Richard "Literal Nazi" Spencer a platform still because of extremely racist harassment, this is a guy who harasses and humiliates a trans student in his "talk", a student who felt so little protection from her school that I believe she had to leave the school before finishing her degree. This is a guy who gets to go on TV pretty much whenever he wants and be treated as someone of worth to talk to., who gets puff pieces written about how likeable he is, etc.... Like again he literally put pictures of a trans student in his powerpoint presentation and mercilessly attacked her for no fucking reason and no one cares, this is not normal, and it shouldn't be treated as such.
So I take issue with even the title: Free Speech was not shutdown, Milo's free speech is fine, he got to go on TV the next day. He gets to harass students, chase them out of their schools and get paid for it and then go on TV and talk about how oppressed he was by violence, and everyone just nods their heads and plays along.