This isn't just about celebrity twitter wars, Milo has been being an abusive shitfuck for YEARS on Twitter and has been temporarily suspended TWO other times.
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Twitter has just banned Milo Yiannopoulos permanently
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This isn't just about celebrity twitter wars, Milo has been being an abusive shitfuck for YEARS on Twitter and has been temporarily suspended TWO other times.
Isis accounts are banned on the reg.
The person you're tacitly defending has been a catalyst for wide spread harassment for years.
Not sure why you think excusing it as shtick is supposed to mean anything. Whether or not someone is a bigot or is just pretending to be one to curry the favor of other "real" bigots it doesn't matter if the end result is the same.
Maybe. You know what a definite result is? He can no longer signal boost harassment campaigns.
LUFTRAUSER
Banned
There's no such thing as the liberal media. There's the media, and there's the conservative propaganda media. Why do you think the right just straight up calls it "the mainstream media" now? They know what they are; what they have become. There's no hiding it.
And Milo isn't a threat. He is a person whose desire for attention is so great that it has warped his entire personality. That he happens to be gay is just another tool he can use. Every aspect of his identity just becomes another way to be noticed; every piece of him orbits around that central goal. He doesn't even believe what he says, or disbelieve it either. It is just noise to him. He has just found the most effective combination of words to summon the hordes. He knows his contrarianism is a great way to stand out. He is nothing but a shell of a human being. A hollow container of rhetoric and vitriol. I know his type.
It is disgusting. I would say he should be ashamed but I doubt that is something he is even capable of any more. When you are how he is for too long you eventually lose sight of your real personality. You don't have anything left.
Bobs Big Boy
Member
Because I don't read about celebrities on Twitter? There's so much more important bullshit going on in the world these days. So many real issues like people dying all over.
Thank fucking god. Every single facet of this slimy shitweasel makes me want him locked up and have the key thrown away. Banning him from Twitter was long overdue.
Now we just need a way to ban Breitbart from the internet and we'll all be set.
Milo has been orchestrating vile Twitter attacks on people for years, causing traumatic psychological damage to many people and spreading outright lies in order to hurt people and their reputations.
Harassment. H-a-r-a-s-s-m-e-n-t. It's not talking about what fucking iPhone Kim Kardashian bought this week.
Now we just need a way to ban Breitbart from the internet and we'll all be set.
fastkilr said:
Milo has been orchestrating vile Twitter attacks on people for years, causing traumatic psychological damage to many people and spreading outright lies in order to hurt people and their reputations.
Harassment. H-a-r-a-s-s-m-e-n-t. It's not talking about what fucking iPhone Kim Kardashian bought this week.
Okay.
EnlightenedMint
Member
At least one good thing happened during the RNC.
I really hope twitter doesn't fold on this, especially after seeing him harass people I follow, all it takes is a tweet and his followers pounce on whoever he wants.
I really hope twitter doesn't fold on this, especially after seeing him harass people I follow, all it takes is a tweet and his followers pounce on whoever he wants.
TestOfTide
Banned
The difference is that you probably showed signs, even back then, that you were open minded enough to be reasoned with.
Milo and his fans are beyond reasoning with. They are at the point where they are swimming waist deep in the mud and drinking the mud. They don't want to hear the facts they just want to wallow in their bigotry and hatred.
With people like that, your best avenues are to humiliate, shame, silence, and prosecute them.
Already Torn
Banned
No, because of your personality and the way you think.
RedAssedApe
Banned
never heard of this guy before today. guess im lucky
What are they supposed to do?
People were spamming tweets calling her a coon / nigger / harambe, along with sending her porn and gore pics. Then when she responds, he decides to call her illiterate, and starts posting fake racist tweets with her name on it to keep the circus going. The shit that was done would break any ToS anywhere.
Then why are you speaking about this as if you do know what you're talking about?
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Fix your shit, Twitter.
And do more, and don't just move when only high-profile people are being attacked. There are other people that are trolled that deserve your attention too, not just famous people.
And do more, and don't just move when only high-profile people are being attacked. There are other people that are trolled that deserve your attention too, not just famous people.
jellies_two
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Twitter have realised that they are no longer growing as long as they stand aside and pretend to be neutral. In fact what is going on has been actively damaging their platform.
So now they're switching gears and are going to try to clean up. Otherwise most of their highly valued celebrity and other high profile accounts will be driven away leaving just the assholes or people with unusually thick skins.
The mainstream liberal media bias and political correctness etc might actually just be the way society has to function lest we tear each other to pieces.
So now they're switching gears and are going to try to clean up. Otherwise most of their highly valued celebrity and other high profile accounts will be driven away leaving just the assholes or people with unusually thick skins.
The mainstream liberal media bias and political correctness etc might actually just be the way society has to function lest we tear each other to pieces.
Meh, Twitter has been dying for a long time.
This just gives his followers more ammo to cry censorship/they banned a gay man/ I have nothing better to do with my life than troll twitter.
They're just going to point to the other side and say, "see they also did the same, why are they not banned".
It's all just a mess.
This just gives his followers more ammo to cry censorship/they banned a gay man/ I have nothing better to do with my life than troll twitter.
They're just going to point to the other side and say, "see they also did the same, why are they not banned".
It's all just a mess.
Velcro Fly
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time to go through the #FreeMilo hashtag and ban the rest of the filth that is unironically whining about it too
Suzushiiro
Banned
A while back they took away his verified mark for being a douche, probably because they felt pressured to punish him somehow but didn't feel like he did anything that was clearly wrong enough to do so. Or maybe they just didn't have the balls. Regardless, they probably should have just prema'd him then.
He wasn't banned for his right-wing doucheabg views, though, he was banned for all but asking his followers to dogpile on her. This wasn't even like the recent Notch incidents where people @'d him calling him an asshole, he responded defending himself rather than just absorbing it, and his followers dogpiled on. While Milo probably didn't start it, he very obviously went out of his way to draw attention to it and add fuel to the fire around her.
I mean, yeah, there are shitloads of other incidents of people from all across the political specturm doing this same shit and not getting punished (or just getting a slap on the wrist,) and the politics and celebrity of both of the major parties involved here are very clearly the reason why Twitter took action here and not in those other cases. But just because Twitter is biased and lazy about enforcing their rules doesn't mean they're wrong to actually do it when they should once in a while.
But yeah, while your point is generally right (because if we don't allow douchebags to state their douchebag opinions in public spaces then how do we know who the douchebags are?), when it comes to criticizing people in a space like Twitter there's a pretty big grey area between "legitimate expressions of opinion"/"participating in a discussion/argument" and "harassing/telling people to harass someone." This case was pretty clearly on the latter side, though.
He wasn't banned for his right-wing doucheabg views, though, he was banned for all but asking his followers to dogpile on her. This wasn't even like the recent Notch incidents where people @'d him calling him an asshole, he responded defending himself rather than just absorbing it, and his followers dogpiled on. While Milo probably didn't start it, he very obviously went out of his way to draw attention to it and add fuel to the fire around her.
I mean, yeah, there are shitloads of other incidents of people from all across the political specturm doing this same shit and not getting punished (or just getting a slap on the wrist,) and the politics and celebrity of both of the major parties involved here are very clearly the reason why Twitter took action here and not in those other cases. But just because Twitter is biased and lazy about enforcing their rules doesn't mean they're wrong to actually do it when they should once in a while.
But yeah, while your point is generally right (because if we don't allow douchebags to state their douchebag opinions in public spaces then how do we know who the douchebags are?), when it comes to criticizing people in a space like Twitter there's a pretty big grey area between "legitimate expressions of opinion"/"participating in a discussion/argument" and "harassing/telling people to harass someone." This case was pretty clearly on the latter side, though.
Lol. I just reported some of his tweets from yesterday which used screen caps of fake tweets from Leslie to suggest they were real so his crazies would harass her. Was just an hour ago. Along with some others missed in the mass bans from yesterday. You're welcome
watch him be back in less than a week
MisterHero
Super Member
temporarily banned
what a major victory
what a major victory
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
So if you don't care to educate yourself on the subject, then why do you feel the need to defend him? This wasn't a case of some innocent guy just posting his opinion on something, he was breaking the site's terms of service repeatedly.
bonesmccoy
Banned
About 3-4 years ago, Milo was a kind of interesting tech-lite personality.
Sucks that he completely abandoned the pseudo high road for whatever the hell he does now.
Sucks that he completely abandoned the pseudo high road for whatever the hell he does now.
Bobs Big Boy
Member
I read a lot of their site for an alternative right perspective.
There was a recent study which disagrees with your opinion. Talking to people face to face about their controversial opinions did in fact change their views.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016...ransgender-issues-can-change-their-prejudices
The initial study turned out to be a fraud, but the one linked above has been verified as a credible study.
Already Torn
Banned
Perm ban
So you completely missed all of his hate campaigns he's made over Twitter and how he's used Brietbart as a way to coordinate attacks with his hateful, racist, non-ethical articles?
DontBeThatGuy
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Permanently.
Freezie KO
Banned
Are there any actual tweets of Milo pointing his supporters to go harass Leslie? Or did he start trashing the actress and his followers started to do so as well?
There are no "directing harassment" tweets in the OP nor the article. That pretty much determines my stance.
There are no "directing harassment" tweets in the OP nor the article. That pretty much determines my stance.
A Link to the Past
Banned
I do have to say how hilarious it was that GamerGate members fell in love with a man who before GamerGate talked about how gamers were basement-dwelling losers and that video games were responsible for mass shootings.
LUFTRAUSER
Banned
That's the problem though. The worst of these people don't get any human interaction outside of a web browser at all. That's why they are the way they are. It won't work online.
Twitter isn't face to face, you're not going to change the minds of people who like to spend their time spamming minorities horrible shit 140 characters at a time.
Someone is getting their news from KiA :lol
Bobs Big Boy
Member
What's with the personal attacks?
TestOfTide
Banned
Your "gay friend" has been against gay marriage, thinks that homosexuality is an aberration and hopes he doesn't have any LGBT children.
If you still consider him a good person, then get fucked.
Like reddit they've finally realised the bullshit of libertarianism that is infecting through silicon valley.
Too little, too late; he should have been banned years ago.
Twitter have allowed this problem to fester for far too long and just banning the wankstain in chief because the worldwide press has picked up this story isn't going to fix it. They need a good harassment policy and they need to enforce it.
Twitter have allowed this problem to fester for far too long and just banning the wankstain in chief because the worldwide press has picked up this story isn't going to fix it. They need a good harassment policy and they need to enforce it.
Suzushiiro
Banned
Yeah, he's basically a professional troll who gets his money by pissing off one side to entertain the other. While Twitter made him a martyr in the short term now that he's b& he'll probably fade from relevance now that his primary platform is gone.
EmpressInYellow
Banned
Good riddance. It's about time someone removed the Worst Super-Saiyan Cosplayer from Twitter.
Scientist Supreme!
Banned
You can just say you like /agree with him because that's all people in this thread are getting from this show.
There hasn't been a study that I know of which refutes your claim, but I would speculate that it would still be possible although more difficult to reach out to someone.
Silver Arrows
Banned
Remember that Gators also defended Jack Thompson, a man who said that those who played games like COD and GTA basically turned into psychopathic killers
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