Twitter permanently bans Gay Conservative Milo Yiannopoulos for mocking a Ghostbuster

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Blue_Max

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Did you happen to miss the giant "Delete" button that was present in the screenshot from Milo's account? Now, how would he have that option on her tweet?

Sooooooo, progressives and "marginalized" people can say whatever they want. "Privileged" people need to check themselves, shut up, be mature and just delete what they don't like.

....see a problem here?
 

agent00f

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Except you missed all of HER many tweets before Milo even came along. She'd been blasting friendly criticism for hours, throwing out all kinds of nastiness and false accusations of racism, etc. This didn't just come out of "nowhere".

Of course, now the damage control crews are trying to claim she never wrote any nasty stuff - just a duplicate account with her exact name, etc.

As usual the progressives say, "WE can do this, YOU can't!"

Is the claim here that the blatantly racism like comparing her to a gorilla came after she accused the racists of racism? Like they were trying to prove her point or something?

Or maybe that's not racist by your standards.
 

Pens1566

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Sooooooo, progressives and "marginalized" people can say whatever they want. "Privileged" people need to check themselves, shut up, be mature and just delete what they don't like.

....see a problem here?

Honest question, can you read?
 

PokerGuy

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What makes you think it's selectively applied? I suspect selective doesn't mean what you think it does.

There are numerous examples of twitter ignoring egregious tweets by some and then banning others (like Milo) for smaller violations.

Azalea Banks calls for gang rape of Sarah Palin. Account suspended and banned? Nope. Countless BLM members and other racists repeatedly calling for murder of white cops. Banned? Nope. Racist tweets, including by Jones herself. Banned? Nope.

Twitter should just put a big splash graphic up for their app when it launches: "everyone welcome except conservatives". At least that would be truth in advertising.

Which only goes to show twitter did the right thing much like a parent disciplining a particularly petulant child.

If that parent disciplines one child for stealing a cookie, but ignores the other children stealing cars, that's a problem (even if disciplining the child for stealing the cookie is the right thing to do). The hypocrisy of punishing people for speech the leftists at twitter don't like while not punishing the vile speech of those the leftists favor is hypocrisy at its finest.
 

agent00f

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There are numerous examples of twitter ignoring egregious tweets by some and then banning others (like Milo) for smaller violations.

Azalea Banks calls for gang rape of Sarah Palin. Account suspended and banned? Nope. Countless BLM members and other racists repeatedly calling for murder of white cops. Banned? Nope. Racist tweets, including by Jones herself. Banned? Nope.

Twitter should just put a big splash graphic up for their app when it launches: "everyone welcome except conservatives". At least that would be truth in advertising.

If that parent disciplines one child for stealing a cookie, but ignores the other children stealing cars, that's a problem (even if disciplining the child for stealing the cookie is the right thing to do). The hypocrisy of punishing people for speech the leftists at twitter don't like while not punishing the vile speech of those the leftists favor is hypocrisy at its finest.

I know that word is hella challenging, but unfortunately learning what harassment means is necessary to understand this situation.
 

senseamp

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There are numerous examples of twitter ignoring egregious tweets by some and then banning others (like Milo) for smaller violations.

Azalea Banks calls for gang rape of Sarah Palin. Account suspended and banned? Nope. Countless BLM members and other racists repeatedly calling for murder of white cops. Banned? Nope. Racist tweets, including by Jones herself. Banned? Nope.

Twitter should just put a big splash graphic up for their app when it launches: "everyone welcome except conservatives". At least that would be truth in advertising.

If that parent disciplines one child for stealing a cookie, but ignores the other children stealing cars, that's a problem (even if disciplining the child for stealing the cookie is the right thing to do). The hypocrisy of punishing people for speech the leftists at twitter don't like while not punishing the vile speech of those the leftists favor is hypocrisy at its finest.

Whining about other petulant children not getting punished is a common activity for petulant children who are getting punished.
 

glenn1

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I know that word is hella challenging, but unfortunately learning what harassment means is necessary to understand this situation.

So which tweet Milo made was the harassing one? Where he criticized her grammar? Or compared her looks to a man?
 

bshole

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If that parent disciplines one child for stealing a cookie, but ignores the other children stealing cars, that's a problem (even if disciplining the child for stealing the cookie is the right thing to do). The hypocrisy of punishing people for speech the leftists at twitter don't like while not punishing the vile speech of those the leftists favor is hypocrisy at its finest.

Are you insinuating that the only people intelligent and creative enough to come up with and implement a concept like Twitter/Youtube/etc.. are leftist? That seems like a pretty vicious back-handed slap at conservatives.
 

agent00f

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So which tweet Milo made was the harassing one? Where he criticized her grammar? Or compared her looks to a man?

Please be reminded again that carrying water for a shitposter who posts fake tweets & further incite their followers to troll/harass people can be a poor strategy.

People will associate you with them, and in your case this is arguably a downgrade.

Though for some of these guys, being thought of as just a shitposter means moving up in the world.
 

WelshBloke

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Yes, regale us with that whopping 2.64% increase in users (302->310) in an entire year (Q1 '15 to Q1 '16). But such growth! /sarcasm. And that's why it's down 50% in value. Further proof why you trying to comment on stock valuations is like Tom Brady thinking he can beat the NFL in court. Epic fail, just like Twitter will be if another company doesn't buy it out.

I'm not commenting on stock value. I'm saying that you're wrong for saying that people are leaving twitter. It's still growing which means that more people are joining twitter.

I bet those usage figures will go up more when they solve their troll problem as well.



Taqiyya alert!

He CLEARLY said usership/value has halved. 50%. Reduced.

YOU are full of crap by changing the narrative and claiming twitter use "stopped completely".

Progressive taqiyya - say/do anything to defend the progressive narrative. Yuck!

He also said that "Of course people have stopped using twitter..." which is what I was addressing. Twitter use has actually gone up.

404 no narrative changing found.

Also why have you put "stopped completely" in quotation marks and implied that I used that argument?
 
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SP33Demon

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I'm not commenting on stock value. I'm saying that you're wrong for saying that people are leaving twitter. It's still growing which means that more people are joining twitter.

I bet those usage figures will go up more when they solve their troll problem as well.





He also said that "Of course people have stopped using twitter..." which is what I was addressing. Twitter use has actually gone up.

404 no narrative changing found.

Also why have you put "stopped completely" in quotation marks and implied that I used that argument?

Ok, sure, - Twitter is growing at a 2% growth rate. Now compare that to competing platforms and you'll see why investors have flocked away from twitter and it's value has been halved in a year. It's a cute niche but moribund platform.
 

agent00f

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Ok, sure, - Twitter is growing at a 2% growth rate. Now compare that to competing platforms and you'll see why investors have flocked away from twitter and it's value has been halved in a year. It's a cute niche but moribund platform.

This is pretty hilarious. Apparently not only does banning milo effect future results, but warps spacetime such that twitter will suffer starting in the past.

Seriously though, it's often best to keep simple thoughts to yourself. We get that your sort are angry with twitter, there's no need to demonstrate that hatred is based on stupidity.
 

glenn1

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It was linked previously in the thread that you didn't read.

Are you speaking of this post? Or are you talking about this post from you?

Either way even the first post contains no evidence that Milo created fake Tweets and doesn't even claim it. And a whole 2 more tweets about her appearance (fat, manlike). Again, you can consider three rude statements to rise to the level of harassment if you want but I don't and I have no rooting interest for or against either party involved (Milo or Leslie Jones).
 

agent00f

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Are you speaking of this post? Or are you talking about this post from you?

Either way even the first post contains no evidence that Milo created fake Tweets and doesn't even claim it. And a whole 2 more tweets about her appearance (fat, manlike). Again, you can consider three rude statements to rise to the level of harassment if you want but I don't and I have no rooting interest for or against either party involved (Milo or Leslie Jones).

No, keep reading. Apparently his repertoire of harassment in just one case runs so deep that individual articles can't even cover it all.
 
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Okay so what if he is a 'complete worthless POS'? Do your First Amendment rights depend on your good behavior, or should companies make it their business that people who use their platform for speech meet that standard of good behavior? If so we could just close down this forum altogether because all of us have shown dick-like behavior at one time or another and therefore should be perma-banned under that standard.

First Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with this and you know that.
 

jman19

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Guy seems like a massive douche and these "people" who follow his trolling ways are animals.

With that said, his specific tweets here don't really seem that bad. I guess he has accumulated enough bad-will that this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
 

senseamp

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If people are claiming that Twitter censored Milo for his Conservatism, then Conservatism now comes down to calling actresses men.
 
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