Apparently he was part of the racist attacks on Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones.
…whilst missing out on a whole lot of context.
The video itself lacks context. This wasn’t about someone who “couldn’t handle the idea that someone might wear a Sombrero to a Halloween party.” What did the email say? The email is part of the context that is missing here.
Classic MRA.
You keep posting videos of people protesting. What makes them SJW’s? Are they wrong to protest? Anita Sarkessian is called an SJW all the time. But she doesn’t spread fake period blood over herself and yell abuse. What makes her an SJW?
You stopped after ten pages?
Here’s a clue you dimwit: if your twitter feed is brigaded with over ten pages of juvenile fat jokes you are being harassed. Because it then becomes nearly impossible to use twitter as intended and your feed is taken completely out of your control. And they just aren’t clogging the twitter feeds, they are sending emails, flooding facebook feeds and making phone calls. Thank goodness for the blockbot.
Gamergate actually had very little to do with video games at all. It started when the jilted ex-boyfriend of an indy developer posted a “tell-all expose” of their relationship. This led the worst elements of the gaming community, real life misogynists, and trolls like Milo to rally behind the hashtag “gamergate”. And under the umbrella of gamergate these worst elements, the real life misogynists, and the trolls made life miserable for many people by harassing, sea-lioning, and just by being trolling trolls. And when called out on it they hid behind the veil of "ethics in games journalism.
Harper makes it clear that she doesn’t want her followers harassing people. Just last night she was arguing with someone, one of her followers retweeted the guys handle and she told them not to so he didn’t get dogpiled.
Harper doesn’t come close to being in the same neighbourhood as being as bad as Milo.
Which follower was it? Milo knows who it was. Rather than choosing to put the blame where it rightly belongs (with the doxxer) he blames Randi.
Didn’t you just finish saying to me “Yiannopoulos isn’t responsible for the actions of the people who follow him on Twitter.?” I’ve agreed with that. So why is Harper now responsible for the actions of her followers?
Those allegations can actually be substantiated so they actually aren’t libel. But I have the advantage over you as I’ve followed the Vivek story and you haven’t. So feel free to go do your own research.
Well as “hit piece” really doesn’t have a definition I’ll go with the Urban Dictionary top choice:
“An attempt to turn public opinion against someone/something through the appearance of objective reporting or editorializing.”
In the cited article Milo went into the specifics of the cases of four people: only two of the four were actually interviewed and one of them probably doesn’t really exist. The purpose of the article was to turn public opinion against Harper and Milo did that by writing an article that had the appearances of being “objective”: it at least managed to fool you. So I think “hit piece” is an appropriate objective description of the article.
Actually I wasn’t sloppy with my writing at all. I was being quite particular when I crafted that sentence. It was a rhetorical trap that I set up which you fell right into.
Nope. What I wrote was clear. The fault lies entirely with you.
My original critique of your original post was your posting a 5 second clip as if that meant anything. Posting more context later on doesn’t change the nature of the original critique, which I stand by.
Gamergate was the worst thing to happen to women on the internet since the internet began. It was a sustained period of hate that has only just begun to taper off now. And Milo was at the centre of it all, fueling the fire. They weren’t screaming at him because he was “talking about the wage gap.” For goodness sakes get a clue.
And the fucker has finally been suspended from twitter. Hopefully this time it is for good.
…he’s probably going to go complain to the White House again.
Here’s an article following up on it:
And here’s Twitter’s statement about it:
And Milo’s response -
So having completely failed at everything he’s ever tried in the UK, he’s now turned himself into a US version of Katie Hopkins. He’ll be fucking delighted at this level of controversy, it’s the only tactic that has a chance of making a no-mark like him famous.
So basically, Piers Morgan.
Perhaps one of the reasons he focuses so much on Islam extremism is because in Europe, his native home, Muslims are big in demographic and they’re known to be very anti-gay, on a general level.
I fully endorse all you say other than this. Remember that the disaffected minority in question in all probability hates gays and wishes they didn’t exist. Sometimes you have to show minorities the error of their ways.
No way this asshole should be leading the parade though!
He is naturally bragging about how much more powerful he will be with the banning. I rather doubt it, the attention span of people following shit-spliters like him is less than that of a gnat and I half expect he’ll be painting swastikas on his forehead in ariport bathrooms in a few weeks.
The only thing that explains this is that Milo has a lot of money he wants to keep, and sees that GOP as the way to do that. Same reason why Peter Thiel, billionaire who took down Gawker for outing him, is supporting Trump.
Doesn’t seem to mind aligning himself to the Republican party, which aren’t exactly all that gay friendly. The guy’s an attention whore, that’s all he cares about, not about the impact of Islam on gay rights. He’s against gay marriage, for crissakes!
He has fuck all money. He’s just looking for some source of fame, and appears to be going after the rather interesting right wing demographic that first kicked off gamer gate. He’s just a troll that does tricks for a particular crowd in the hope he can make money out of it.
Milo Yannopoulos is banned from Twitter for ‘harassing’ black woman and yet
Twitter takes no action as calls for cop-killing sweep platform
Right, dissing a black woman is far more serious than calling for cops to be killed.
For fuck’s sake, thiis is lunacy. Ban them all or allow them all.
There’s all kinds of shit on Twitter, because, despite what Breitart is pushing, Twitter is not anti-free speech (although as a private company, they’re not bound by the first amendment, obviously.)
The difference is that the various “kill the cops” examples are general sentiments expressed as political speech by individuals. Actual Free Speech advocates (which Breitbart is not) would understand that.
OTOH, Twitter is against using it’s platform for hate brigades against specific people. Milo and his idiot fans launching a brigade targeting one specific person is weaponized harassment. Twitter is, quite naturally, against behavior that drives users off their platforms. They are also against having their platform used as an attack vector by hate groups. All of that is bad for business.
Just like every other company on the internet, Twitter is under no obligation to allow hate groups to launch endless streams of abuse at specific individual users. If Ben Baller and all their fans were private and direct messaging a specific person with their kill cops rhetoric, they would get banned, too. Just posting their own general ideas about their feelings on their own stream is not the same thing.
Good thing you’re being careful with the scare quotes there. You wouldn’t want people to get the impression that you agree that cheering on thousands of users to send barrages of tweets calling the woman a “big lipped coon” and comparing her to a gorilla, make rape and death threats, photoshop fake tweets from her account, etc., actually counts as harassment.
Cite Milo “cheered them on” please?
Oh look! Sea Lion!
Those aren’t exogenous variables.
Don’t know if you understand that terminology. Don’t know if you care.
Ah, Gary Becker. And yet discrimination exists and has routinely propped such discrepancies. Hell, wage differentials of that magnitude have existed for adjoining villages.
…ya know, when you see another breaking the rules here on the dope we are instructed to report the offending posts. The person who wrote this article on Breitbart goes to lengths to explain to us twice that the offending tweets are still online. But not once do they say that they reported the tweets. Do you roll your eyes when you go to ATMB and someone complains about moderator inaction only to find out they never reported the infraction? Breitbart is doing the exact same thing: only they are doing it on purpose. The longer the “offending posts” stay online the longer the better it is for Breitbart and they know it.
And what do you know. It looks like some of those tweets are gone. So either the authors deleted them or they got reported and then taken down. But none of those tweeters come close to the body of work of our friend Mr Milo. Multiple reports of harassment from lots of different people, his verified tick was taken away and he had previously been suspended. His mistake this time was that his target was a high profile celebrity: twitter simply couldn’t ignore that. But don’t be the dweeb who thinks he was banned because he was “dissing a black woman.” Because that just goes to show how ignorant you are and you are a mindless follower of professional trolls like Breibart.
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Damn.
I don’t know if most actual writers I know could write something this bad on purpose.
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