MetroidPrimeRib
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Someone get me an appropriate gif. I'm on mobile.
Seems like it always comes down to "but free speech"
Like Twitter doesn't make you sign a EULA or anything
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Twitter has just banned Milo Yiannopoulos permanently
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Seems like it always comes down to "but free speech"
Like Twitter doesn't make you sign a EULA or anything
Can you explain to me how people in this thread saying that Milo deserves to be banned is falling to the level of people who harass people over on Twitter? Because it might just be me, but those two things don't seem anywhere near similar.
How could anyone here possibly fall to their level. Who here has harassed Milo? What avenue could they even have to do so anymore?
I must have missed that one. If you point it out to me I'll read it. Like I said I have no love for Milo, I just don't see any evidence of him directing a harassment campaign and I disagree that he should be held responsible for the behavior of every one of his followers unless he actually instigated them.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Cucked by Twitter?
Puppet Shadow
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The people it won't go down well with are the people Twitter honestly would be better off not having.
I find the people that bitch most about 'free speech' are the ones that tend to spew a lot of hateful shit.
Scrooge McDuck
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Come on now. If you have no idea about the subject matter at hand (and seemingly have no interest in learning, considering your proud repeat-proclamation of that fact), it's pretty rude to just jump in and accuse people of harassment.
'both sides are the same, so I can lecture from an ivory tower because none of this affects me personally'
Is what happens.
So, basically what you're saying is you don't have enough knowledge about the situation, but you're willing to sit in judgement of the situation? Maybe educate yourself a bit about his history -- he's not being harassed, he's being stopped from doing harm to people. That is noble, and, surprisingly, outweighs free speech.
Tolerate my intolerance or else you're as intolerant as I am. That's the entire explanation. It's intellectual paralysis.
GearDraxon
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Someone get me an appropriate gif. I'm on mobile.
"I don't know if you know much about leftist culture, but Twitter just shot themselves in the foot."
Gotdatmoney
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I dunno who this guy is but he sounds like a fucking cancer. Hopefully he crawls back into whatever asshole of the internet he came from.
A Link to the Past
Banned
He posted fake tweets of her making anti-Semitic statements.
He has done this before.
With the result being that the target of the fake tweet was harassed.
Milo is not an idiot, so the logical assumption is that he understands the end result of his behavior.
Cheesecakebobby
Banned
'Twitter just shot itself in the foot'.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about trolling (I'm an expert)...
Edit: damn you GearDraxon
I don't know how much the rest of you know about trolling (I'm an expert)...
Edit: damn you GearDraxon
Already Torn
Banned
I think this is now one of my biggest pet peeves. Sealioning seems reasonable by comparison.
djplaeskool
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Crimson_Echidna
Banned
Leslie Jones was obviously the Real Racist.
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.
Yep.
Being able to identify Sea Lioning, Concern Trolling, Virtue Signalling, and Signal Boosting tactics are a good way to filter out the good from the bad.
Stephen Colbert did the lord's work recently in trying to give a name to the plausible deniability tactics Trump employs - Trumpiness.
Oh my god
partyphone
Banned
I've never heard of this milo fellow but I'm going to come into this thread and spend a dozen posts complaining about how he was unfairly banned.
Milo getting banned is a minor victory but it's likely they did it because of optics instead of any kind of principled stance against harassment. they would have to ban a lot of people and no on there wants to be seen as the person who pulled the trigger on losing so many users.
Milo getting banned is a minor victory but it's likely they did it because of optics instead of any kind of principled stance against harassment. they would have to ban a lot of people and no on there wants to be seen as the person who pulled the trigger on losing so many users.
GamerGate is a problem that you should educate yourself about.
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
Aka South Park-Syndrome. I like the cartoon, but I hate the fact that it's bred a generation of people with that annoying attitude.
Someone get me an appropriate gif. I'm on mobile.
"it's what he wants"
LiveFromKyoto
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fastkilr said:
And sometimes the lesson we learn from them is "hey, this person should really be banned from social media."
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
Remember the guy who invented an imaginary 'kill all men' feminist who was used as a strawman example of how terrible feminists were, who was the owner of such prestigious reddit communities:
and who also got arrested for being an actual honest-to-god terrorist after he impersonated a "reasonable muslim who was indoctrinated by ISIS" in order to demonize muslims but accidentally shared his attack plans to an FBI informant?
Yeah, he was one of Milo's sources on a paper bag race test smear job against a BlackLivesMatter activist.
As soon as he got arrested for being an honest-to-god-terrorist, Milo went through his tweets with the guy and deleted them. lol
RedAssedApe
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so someone with a PSNID: lolneogaf
just messaged me on PSN and referenced one of my posts in this thread. get a life weirdo. lol
just messaged me on PSN and referenced one of my posts in this thread. get a life weirdo. lol
YES YES YES.
Never thought I'd see him pull the "why'd you block me!?!?!?" Guess it just took the entire site denying him for him to finally whine like his followers.
Someone get me an appropriate gif. I'm on mobile.
Never thought I'd see him pull the "why'd you block me!?!?!?" Guess it just took the entire site denying him for him to finally whine like his followers.
dril continues to be the best thing on Twitter.
Holy moley
TheOohChild
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It was obviously just a coincidence that she was flooded with pictures of gorillas at roughly the same time Milo was posting those fake tweets.
Silver Arrows
Banned
I had that happen a few months ago.
I wouldn't be surprised if I get one again....if I didn't block them.
Already Torn
Banned
Yeah, that's apparently pretty common. I wonder if someone named Titanoboa on PSN is super confused? But hey, take it easy on lolneogaf. We have no evidence they did anything wrong, and it's important that we hear their voice.
Exactly!
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Maybe I'm mistaken but isn't the act of falsifying or photoshopped tweets deflamation of character? It's falsely painting her in a negative light to spur hate in her direction.
Maybe Leslie could take his ass to court for that on top of harassment?
smokeandmirrors
Banned
I've gotten one of those too trying to spoil uncharted 4 after I said something about flag burning. They get triggered by things very easily and are cowards for not doing it on their actual neogaf account.
EnlightenedMint
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GG is obsessed with GAF, every time I went to see a meltdown on their reddit there is always a thread about gaf.
DICKS AHOY
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The moral is, you're a-okay as long as you avoid going after famous people.
Though in all seriousness given how limp-wristed Twitter has been regarding Milo's antics since GG onwards I don't think he was expecting or hoping for a punishment this harsh. He may still have Brietbart and KotakuInAction to fuck about in (under the impression he's more subtle on 8chan for legal reasons), but Twitter was easily his biggest exposure to people. The other platforms he has left are way too niche.
Still, regardless of his concern trolling about cultural leftism raping the internet in the surface, privately he's probably pretty pissed.
Though in all seriousness given how limp-wristed Twitter has been regarding Milo's antics since GG onwards I don't think he was expecting or hoping for a punishment this harsh. He may still have Brietbart and KotakuInAction to fuck about in (under the impression he's more subtle on 8chan for legal reasons), but Twitter was easily his biggest exposure to people. The other platforms he has left are way too niche.
Still, regardless of his concern trolling about cultural leftism raping the internet in the surface, privately he's probably pretty pissed.
Don't get it twisted, the people who follow Milo and other Alt-Right shits are ALWAYS watching, waiting for any opportunity to harass people who are for progressive equality.
Lol I had the same thing happen on twitter, said I personally keeping racism alive.
They constantly have a meltdown thread whenever big GG threads become graveyards and then subsequently get locked. This was a while ago when GG threads were more common.
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