Twitter permanently bans Gay Conservative Milo Yiannopoulos for mocking a Ghostbuster

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WelshBloke

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I hardly run in conservative circles, but there's only been ~1 sjw in my facebook feed but more of these alt-right types whinging about sjw persecution. I expect most people to know ~0 sjws and even more of the latter.
Likewise. There's definitely more of the wierdo, libertairian, corporate anarchist, conspiracy nutters on mine. No SJWs. In fact the only time I see them mentioned is here.
 

SP33Demon

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I agree - so for those who are against this, stop using and viewing Twitter. That won't happen of course.
Huh? Twitter stock is down 50% on the year. Of course people have stopped using twitter, this is just one of the major issues (cherry picking bans) that is plaguing the shitty website and that also includes better products for millenials to use.
 

agent00f

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Huh? Twitter stock is down 50% on the year. Of course people have stopped using twitter, this is just one of the major issues (cherry picking bans) that is plaguing the shitty website and that also includes better products for millenials to use.

Yeah, his 400k syphocants must've switched to following him on IG/snapchat.
 

WelshBloke

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senseamp

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This same guy supported suppression of others' free speech on basis that it was uncomfortable for conservatives if their actions and even public statements were reported on, publicized and made headlines:

http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/05/31/peter-thiel-free-speech/

You see, for a long time in the first half of the 2010s, the primary threat to free speech on the internet was Gawker. Whenever someone considered making an un-PC joke, or antagonizing a feminist on social media, or criticizing the hot left-wing hashtag of the moment, they paused and considered whether a bored Gawker writer might turn them into a headline.

Thiel didn’t create a chilling effect. He ended one. Only those who live in the same left-wing media bubble as Gawker – i.e, Vox and WIRED writers – could possibly think otherwise.
Agree with it or not, but by his own logic, Twitter ended a chilling effect on free speech of those Milo was attacking on Twitter.
Well, he got a taste of the medicine he prescribed for others, and now he is whining like a typical Republican does when same rules they apply to others are applied to them.
 

CitizenKain

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Its funny how the idiot rightwing thinks this is a free speech issue. But being the stupidest people in the room is common for them.
Milo can join the floor shitter and pretend he matters somewhere else.
 

Jaskalas

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Agree with it or not, but by his own logic, Twitter ended a chilling effect on free speech of those Milo was attacking on Twitter.

Did Twitter also shut down the plethora of racist haters the OP showed a picture of? They are legion compared to Milo.

My issue is not that they appear to require a certain standard of... polite... conduct, but to apply rules fairly and universally so as not to pick favorites... to not harm political enemies. I want "justice" to be blind.

What is demanded of Twitter is equality.
 

DrDoug

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Its funny how the idiot rightwing thinks this is a free speech issue. But being the stupidest people in the room is common for them.
Milo can join the floor shitter and pretend he matters somewhere else.

Are you talking about Rage Furby over at the shithole known as GotNews? :biggrin:
 

senseamp

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Did Twitter also shut down the plethora of racist haters the OP showed a picture of? They are legion compared to Milo.

My issue is not that they appear to require a certain standard of... polite... conduct, but to apply rules fairly and universally so as not to pick favorites... to not harm political enemies. I want "justice" to be blind.

What is demanded of Twitter is equality.

I don't know about everyone else, but Milo got the treatment he thought was right for others, so he has no leg to stand on.
 

Blue_Max

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Sounds like a business opportunity for someone to create a twitter alternative that guarantees free speech (with the possible exception of using it to plan illegal/deadly activities, as free speech already stands currently.)

(Then again, that's why places like the EU (and more are wanting to) make any negative speech towards "marginalized" groups illegal. SpeechCrime and ThoughtCrime. Yay.)
 

senseamp

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Sounds like a business opportunity for someone to create a twitter alternative that guarantees free speech (with the possible exception of using it to plan illegal/deadly activities, as free speech already stands currently.)

(Then again, that's why places like the EU (and more are wanting to) make any negative speech towards "marginalized" groups illegal. SpeechCrime and ThoughtCrime. Yay.)

Looks like you are gonna be rich soon.
 

WelshBloke

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Sounds like a business opportunity for someone to create a twitter alternative that guarantees free speech (with the possible exception of using it to plan illegal/deadly activities, as free speech already stands currently.)

Go for it.

Shall we guess what it'll turn out like?
 

Blue_Max

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Go for it.

Shall we guess what it'll turn out like?

It'll be a shitstorm of both sides screaming at each other -- which beats the hell out of overlords only allowing communication from ONE side, and bans all opposing views.
 

WelshBloke

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It'll be a shitstorm of both sides screaming at each other -- which beats the hell out of overlords only allowing communication from ONE side, and bans all opposing views.
It would be that briefly before everyone that wasn't mentally ill left.

After that it would be a wasteland of whinging that no one was paying attention to remaining posters and loads of conspiracies as to why.

Which is why no one with any sense has made it.
 

Blue_Max

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It would be that briefly before everyone that wasn't mentally ill left.

After that it would be a wasteland of whinging that no one was paying attention to remaining posters and loads of conspiracies as to why.

Which is why no one with any sense has made it.

Wasn't that what it was initially supposed to be before it turned into a hugbox for everyone on one side of the fence, and loudly demonizing the other side with no reciprocation allowed?

Perhaps that's why twitter did so well until only one side was permissible?
 

WelshBloke

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Wasn't that what it was initially supposed to be before it turned into a hugbox for everyone on one side of the fence, and loudly demonizing the other side with no reciprocation allowed?

Perhaps that's why twitter did so well until only one side was permissible?
It was supposed to be a wasteland with a few tortured souls screaming at each other?

Why the hell would they want that?
 
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