Pretty much.
That Kim/Taylor shit is gonna get more exposure than this clown after today on twitter and that happened on Sunday.
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Twitter has just banned Milo Yiannopoulos permanently
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Pretty much.
That Kim/Taylor shit is gonna get more exposure than this clown after today on twitter and that happened on Sunday.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
Especially when a lot of their arguments boil down to but look at what Leslie posted! with caps of the exact same photoshopped tweets Milo posted that were in violation of the TOS in the first place. They're oblivious to how they're cementing Twitter's stance on this.
Only thing I can even remotely agree with them on is all the other shit like ISIS accounts and cop violence promotion Twitter completely fails at policing, and even then it's obvious they're not remotely arguing that in good faith. Especially that latter example.
A Link to the Past
Banned
Liberals?
name too long. character limit couldn't handle it.
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
I almost thought this was the guy who made What does the fox say?
Im sure twitter would help.
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There's already a million fake Milo accounts out there.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Posted Famitsu scans?
Chie Satonaka
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ess jay double ewes
FortuneFaded
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Homophobia.
blame space
Banned
but really how do you ban someone from Twitter? can't hr just create a new (admittedly unverified) account?
why would they even verify him in the first place?
why would they even verify him in the first place?
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
He harassed a famous actress which apparently is where Twitter draws the line.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
What's this #freemilo hashtag on Twitter?
Are they saying they want him back?
Are they saying they want him back?
This made my night, thank you.
Because of Hillary Clinton and the leftist, Marxist, Islamist, politically correct, abusive liberals.
At least that's what Breitbart seems to be implying. Well that and something about the RNC and the "Gays for Trump" platform being silenced.
Vicetrailia
Banned
Down goes the general. Today just ended all so well.
FortuneFaded
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Milo is a Jesus-type figure of the alt-right. Which probably means he'll be back in 3 days.
He won't have all his followers though, plus he loses his 4 character @ username and you won't be able to tell him apart from all the other fake Milo accounts.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Am I correct in thinking that this truly does cut him off at the knees?
He has a platform on Breitbart and a podcast... but that's a limited media for those in his bubble. If he doesn't have twitter, it seems like he has a much more limited reach into popular culture. He can't talk directly to his fans or mobilize them in the same way.
He has a platform on Breitbart and a podcast... but that's a limited media for those in his bubble. If he doesn't have twitter, it seems like he has a much more limited reach into popular culture. He can't talk directly to his fans or mobilize them in the same way.
excelsiorlef
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As soon as they caught on he'd be gone again.
He'd literally have to not be up front and loud, and that's all he can ever be.
MatrixMan.EXE
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Um, not really. I use Social media a lot and I'm up to date with current affairs, but most people outside of GAF and other gaming boards have no fucking clue what GG is. People on message boards seem to think the whole thing is way more prevalent outside of those circles than it actually is lol
excelsiorlef
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It got national media coverage
He can still presumably show up at colleges and talk to sad losers
Twitter is not a state run enterprise.
This has nothing to do with free speech.
A private company banning someone is different than the government banning/deleting opinions they don't agree with.
Germany is a democratic republic and Twitter is a company. They're not comparable here.
Why? People here were telling me hate speech = free speech.
Why? There's not much to agree upon when people post that refugees should burn. Those aren't "opinions". And Germany asks Facebook to delete such postings since all they do is spread more hate.
Yes, definitely. But the result is the same. And Twitter wouldn't have done it without the outside pressure by media reporting on it.
Rockin' Ranger
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It's Twitter's right to free speech to decide not to have their service spread someone's hate and harassment.
Garrett Hawke
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Goodbye forever!
Comfort Jones
Banned
I apologize if I missed it but where in the article do they provide a source showing how he directed people to harass her?
Not defending him or anything like that mind you, fuck that loser.
Not defending him or anything like that mind you, fuck that loser.
Free speech aplies to government censorship, not private. Twitter banning Milo is like Burger King kicking someone out for yelling 'cuck cuck cuck' in their restaurant.
Great way to put it. Im literally Okay for people like him to just get banned from all social media outlets and limit their hate speech absolutely nothing is lost.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
It's been posted repeatedly in the thread but the main thing that fucked him over (in this particular case) was posting blatantly photoshopped tweets of Leslie being racist (not to mention a few blatant chan phrases I doubt anybody outside that sphere would ever recognize, let alone use like 'bix nood') and passing them off as real to fuel people attacking her. There's no way that doesn't count as inciting harassment in Twitter's ToS, even if they've turned a blind eye to him doing it previous times.
Laughing Banana
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AFAIK he's not doing it directly.
But--just like fans of big YouTube personalities--his fans immediately targeted anyone he's harassing/making fun of.
MatrixMan.EXE
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Not in my country. Just because it's an ongoing conversation on GAF, doesn't mean it is in coffee shops and offices the world over. Most people probably don't know what it is, but I guess they're all living under rocks too.
lol, great way to put it 😄
I guess I'm fine with a government doing the same as a company and since Facebook thought "kill the refugees" was an a-okay statement for quite some time the government had to step in and I'm glad they did.
CrimsonSquall
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Peep r/the_donald on reddit. Defense squad is out for this guy smh
brandonh83
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It's a sub filled exclusively with right wing, meme spewing contrarians obsessed with an anti-establishment narcissist who makes his own reality.
He couldn't be more perfectly tailored to them.
Palette Swap
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These "let's do nothing" arguments are so overused and stupid.
He already had all the publicity in the world thanks to Twitter, and leveraged it to lead harassment campaigns. Your argument is essentially "leave bullies alone or they'll be worse". That's not how you deal with bullies.
So yeah, he's going to cry a bit on his far right websites and podcasts, a few thousand idiots will continue to be racist and mysoginist shitheads and write "cuck cuck cuck" while masturbating to Trump, atheism and/or anime, but at the end of the day, he has lost a platform.
The real issue here is that Twitter has done fuck all in the past to deal with it and let things fester to that point.
So here's a question a lot of people I've seen using the #FreeMilo hashtag need to think about:
1) You argue that if Leslie Jones doesn't like it she can just leave Twitter and ignore it
2) You also argue that if Milo is forced to leave Twitter his career is over
Which is it? Superfluous or required?
1) You argue that if Leslie Jones doesn't like it she can just leave Twitter and ignore it
2) You also argue that if Milo is forced to leave Twitter his career is over
Which is it? Superfluous or required?
Twitter allows ISIS, the KKK, the Westboro Church and Nazi groups on its service.
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