Twitter permanently bans Milo Yiannopoulos

[bluestateguy]

I won't put on DU what I'm saying to myself about "Nero" right now. It would likely get me tombstoned.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/twitter-just-permanently-suspended-conservative-writer-milo?utm_term=.hq4ezkpw7#.lsaGYkPKp

Twitter has banned one of its most notoriously contentious voices. On Tuesday evening, the microblogging service permanently suspended the account of conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, a day after he incited his followers to bombard Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones with racist and demeaning tweets.

Yiannopoulos, who currently serves as Breitbart.com’s tech editor, has been hailed as a voice of the new “alt-right” movement. As such, he has made a living as a provocateur, continually inflaming tensions between progressive branches of the internet focused on identity politics and the fervently anti-PC segment that constantly trolls it. For years, Yiannopoulous has used Twitter not only to voice his controversial opinions, but to direct his legion of followers (388,042 at the time of this writing) toward his opponents. As a result, he’s been temporarily banned from Twitter a number of times for violating its terms of service and stripped of his verification.

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[JaneyVee]

1. YAAAAY!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

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[scscholar]

2. He is pretending to be something he isn't to get publicity

That alone means he needs to be silenced.

[tritsofme]

4. Who chooses when you need to be silenced?

[Skittles]

11. Twitter, when Bluestateguy violates their rules

you can even be banned from DU for such behavior

[tritsofme]

15. The implication from that poster seemed more nefarious than a ban on Twitter

Closing a Twitter account does not leave one silenced, which is what that person advocates...

What does that mean? I'd like to know too.

[Skittles]

18. he's been silenced on Twitter

he's free to spew his racist, sick trash where assholes appreciate him

[dlwickham]

6. he hasn't been silenced

he can stand on the street corner and scream his filth

[63splitwindow]

10. That applies to many "Conservative" talking scumbags beginning with...

Of course once they see how lucrative it is they will milk it for all it is worth.

[geek tragedy]

24. no, he repeatedly harassed others, and they stopped his behavior

he was not silenced

[Marr]

55. Huh?

Explain that one to me. How do you know what's in other peoples' minds, and what makes you think you're any sort of arbiter on who needs to be 'silenced', whatever that means?

[tallahasseedem]

3. I just saw what he did to that poor actress...

on Twitter. Vile and disgusting. Definitely not a loss.

[MrScorpio]

5. Niiiice! Nt

[Initech]

7. Excellent!

I saw Ghostbusters on Sunday and it was really good. Better than I had expected. Leslie Jones doesn't deserve this.

[Onyrleft]

8. Leslie Jones still needs to sue that creep.

The crap he posted was disgusting. He's a Breitbart scumbag and I hope she sues them all into abject poverty.

[Nevernose]

9. I think the idea of a Ghostbusters remake is dumb

It's like a remake of Duck Soup. It's a totally needless remake of an already perfect original.

I just bought tickets for me, my wife, my daughter, and her boyfriend at two different showings of the new Ghostbusters. If you go to the original link, these are terrible, horrible human beings, and even on DU I can't say what I really think of them. I can, however, show the world with my wallet.

(It's still probably going to suck, but at least I now have sixty bucks towards the sequel )

[herding cats]

12. Good.

You can say what you like...that's free speech. What you can't do is say it on privately owned venues when it breaches their TOS.

I like seeing abusive speech banned from social media. It sends a powerful message to those using such speech.

[KT2000]

13. What he did to Leslie Jones

is disgusting and should be against the law, not just Twitter rules.

[Crowman1979]

14. Him and his alt-right closeted self-hating freaks can fuck off!

[Rex]

16. Poor baby. Troll gets TS from twitter. Breitbart spawn is bound to fail.

Bottom feeders, attacking women gee how original that is all they know how to do.

[LuvLoogie]

17. Being banned from twitter is like not being able to order Domino's pizza ever again.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

39. How so? nt

[kcr]

45. I'll give it a try

I'd say it's because there are a vast array of other choices for pizza. You just can't have that pizza. So the claim that his pizza rights have been violated would be an overstatement. Kind of like the claim that his free speech rights have been violated just because one social media venue didn't tolerate his vile spew.

[trotsky]

48. Plus, Twitter isn't the government.

We don't have a constitutional right to use Twitter any more than we have a constitutional right to post on DU.

Lots of people don't understand this, unfortunately.

[deathrind]

53. True

It is amazing how many people really do not understand the 1st Amendment.

[awoke_in_2003]

19. I hate that Hollywood has no new ideas

but why take it out on the actors? She was offered a roll, she took it.

[Warpy]

20. No new ideas unless they came out of comic books

because reading seems to be a low priority for studio honchos. They'll blow millions on special effects but script writers? Oh why not just let the actors ad lib their way through a story board? It'll seem real that way.

Unfortunately, it's also boring as hell that way.

In addition, there are few women's roles where they're not just props to be used by men.

It's a good thing so many great movies are being made offshore. They're rarely being made here.

[Humanist_Activist]

21. I think originality is somewhat overrated, what should matter is decent writing of the details...

and keeping things within the themes you wish to use.

There are only so many themes that movies, books, TV, epics, stories, legends, etc. use, and they only number a dozen or so.
Also, please bear in mind that all of these themes, or tropes, whatever you call them, are as old as dirt. Its very hard to be original when people have been retelling the same shit for probably tens of thousands of years now, since the beginning of complex language at least.

To give examples, there's the Hero's Journey, let's see, some of homer's epics, a LOT of westerns are like this, Star Wars, Star War VII(obviously), The Princess Bride, Three Musketeers, hmm, a Knight's Tale(both original Chaucer and the movie).

Ghostbusters falls under this theme as well, but for a team, rather than just a single individual, and it follows the conventions established a long time ago about how such teams are set up. The thing that's important is that the story is told well, the universe follows its own conventions so the audience isn't lost, etc.

Excellent examples of a different type of movie, the new Dredd movie, its not original(based on a comic book), but told well, and frankly I'd like to see them explore more of the Dredd universe they started to establish with that movie. In fact, I would tentatively call it an Americanized version of "The Raid" with slightly toned down violence. Similar themes and premise, even a similar setting of sorts(a single building), the enemy was even similar(drug lord). Both are excellent movies, but there are enough differences for both to stand on their own. I loved both, and would recommend the subtitled version of "The Raid" and its sequel as well. Its also worth mentioning that "The Raid" isn't completely original either, and I definitely got vibes of "Die Hard" from it.

[Action_Patrol]

30. Dredd was a great movie

But it was both written and into production before The Raid. The Raid just made it to screen first.

Dredd should have been a huge hit. It was just a victim of it's crappy predecessor and bad marketing.

[Orrex]

34. Magnificent film.

Terrific performance by Urban in a great examples of a performer "inhabiting" a character. And you can't even see most of his face!

I agree with you completely re: its predecessor and its marketing.

[Action_Patrol]

38. It's a film that would benefit

From multiple chapters being told. Would love to see more of that universe.

Instead we get sequels to tripe like "XxX"

[Orrex]

40. Yes indeed

Surprisingly, I didn't even know that the film existed until I stumbled upon it on NetFlix, and I couldn't believe how good it was. I only read Judge Dredd sporadically during my youth, because it wasn't available locally where I grew up, but it got the tone, the feel, the look and the attitude exactly right IMO. Even the "star-scrapers" were great, and they set up the promise of entire storytelling universes contained within each building.

I've heard that Urban wants to do another Dredd film with NetFlix or Amazon, but I don't know the current status.

[Action_Patrol]

41. Apparently everyone involved still wants to be

Regardless of what format that may be.

I hope it happens. A Netflix series would work great for me. Technology has come a long way

[Orrex]

25. I feel the same way about Broadway and live theater in general

So many "revivals" of old shows. Why don't they do something creative and new?

[Bluenorthwest]

31. Yeah because Hamilton is such a boring and redundant piece, The Book of Mormon is just

a rip off of 'Koran-o-rama: the Musical. 'All The Way' has to be the umpteenth play about LBJ and really it's just 'Hamilton' set in the 60's with more white people. 'Fun Home' might was well be Gold Diggers of 1934, for the love of Mike!

[Orrex]

32. Equally, all films are not sequels or remakes.

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Yes, Swiss Army Man is the thousandth remake of Jane Eyre.

Although the majority of highly successful films are sequels or remakes, whose fault is that? If it's such a terrible trend, and if Hollywood is so disastrously lacking in creativity, then discerning movie-goers should vote with their dollars and only buy tickets for independent films based on original screenplays.

For that matter, sequels and remakes are hardly a new phenomenon. There were at least seven Wizard of Oz films before Judy Garland donned the Technicolor-friendly Ruby Slippers. If Hollywood is lacking in creativity, it's only because it has always been lacking in creativity--just like live productions and print media.

How many productions of Hamlet have there been? Don't these silly theaters have any sense of originality?


Complaining about popular sequels and remakes is very close to self-congratulatory elitism.

[Glassunion]

42. It is really a shame they have no new ideas...

Except for all of their really good new ideas.

[jonno99]

51. When I take a roll - I like to

put butter on it!


(sorry couldn't resist!)

[awoke_in_2003]

54. No problem

I left myself open for that, and I like real butter, too

[Skittles]

56. I am a movie buff, used to go almost weekly

now more often than not it's hard to find good movies, so much cartoons and action hero crap

[backscatter712]

23. Good! Fuck that Aunt Phyllis!

Yes, Milo Yiannopoulos is the LGBT equivalent to an Uncle Tom.

[geek tragedy]

27. you're defending that piece of dog shit? nt

[tenderfoot]

35. not at all surprising

eom

[sufrommich]

29. He was banned for stalking and harassment.

Witty and eloquent????

[Brickbat]

37. ROFLMAO.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

44. Fuck Milo Yannopoulous. Seriously. Fuck him.

He's no "witty, eloquent troll." He's an asshole with one of the serious cases of Backpfeifengesicht you will ever see in your life.

He's a piece of shit who rallies other pieces of shit to do shitty things. His purported sexual orientation has absolutely zilch to diminish that fact (other than creating an odd paradox where you have ultra-bigoted alt-righters proclaiming their love of a supposedly gay guy.)

A little primer for you on free speech and the First Amendment: IT DOES NOT APPLY TO SOCIAL MEDIA. SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT BUT RATHER A PRIVATE ENTITY AND CAN DO WHATEVER IT LIKES. GET THAT THROUGH YOUR LITTLE PRECIOUS HEAD.

[The Straight Story]

46. Meh. The guy can't whine about it

He broke the TOS of a private business and they acted in their own interests.

And twitter has banned plenty of others over things as well (isis for example, who keeps making new accounts, so he is in good company).

His free speech is intact.

[sharp_stick]

47. Witty and elegant

are definitely not terms that most thinking individuals would use when describing Milo Yannopoulos. The sooner that serial loser and permavictim disappears from public view the better.

[cwydro]

28. Good.

And good riddance.

I've been absolutely horrified by this Leslie Jones story.

[Chathamization]

33. What a terrible article, I can't even tell what happened

It says:

On Tuesday evening, the microblogging service permanently suspended the account of conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, a day after he incited his followers to bombard Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones with racist and demeaning tweets.

Linking to another article - that talks about racist tweets, but doesn't mention Milo Yiannopoulos at all. So I guess he was behind those tweets and they found out later? He was encouraging his followers to attack her? Or maybe even encouraging his followers to attack her based on her race? I don't know. It'd be nice if the article could actually tell us what happened.

[Chathamization]

49. Here's an article that does a pretty good job at explaining what happened

Excerpt:

At one point, Yiannopoulos even began tweeting out obviously fake tweets masquerading as tweets from Jones herself. Though it is unclear whether Yiannopoulos actually authored the falsified tweets himself or simply shared them, it was clearly an attempt to further smear Jones online.

Worth looking at those tweets - he was "retweeting" disgusting slur filled fake tweets and pretending they came from Jones (the article includes a lot of other things he did). Not sure why almost all the other articles about this are so vague about what actually happened.

[erpowers]

36. He Got Exactly What He Deserved

Milo Yiannopoulos got exactly what he deserved. This is not a free speech issue. His free speech rights have not been abridged. His encouragement of his followers to say racist things about Leslie Jones was just wrong. The sad part is that online Republicans are supporting him.

[DLevine]

50. Good. What a sick fuck. nt

[Blue_Tires]

52. Good riddance...

[ismnotwasm]

57. About time

I hate that fucker