It’s wrong to mock someone who is down on their luck … unless that person is failed former alt-right superstar Milo Yiannopoulos.
After being forced out of Breitbart two years ago, disinvited from conferences, losing his book deal, incurring approx…
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Patreon bans alt-right content creators from earning money on its platform
Patreon, the subscription content service that allows people to receive donations directly from their audience, has taken a major stance against alt-right and far right content creators.
After banning Milo Yiannopoulos from using its platform to fund…
From Milo to Alex Jones: What is Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey doing?
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Twitter’s decision to provide Alex Jones with a platform came down from the very top.
A recent report from the Wall Street Journal details the internal decisions at Twitter that have kept Alex Jones on the app — even as other tech companies, like Apple, Facebook, and YouTube, decided Jones was no longer welcome.
Apparently, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey himself stepped in and overruled staff recommendations to remove Alex Jones from the service.
Per the Wall Street Journal, “Mr. Dorsey told one person that he had overruled a decision by his staff to kick Mr. Jones off, according to a person familiar with the discussion.” Read more…
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Wait, Milo Yiannopoulos is still on Facebook?
Late Friday night, former Breitbart golden boy and rallying figure for the alt-right, Milo Yiannopoulos, complained in the comments section of a Facebook post about how hard his life had become.
“I have lost everything standing up for the truth in America, spent all my savings, destroyed all my friendships, and ruined my whole life,” Yiannopoulos wrote. “At some point, you realize it’s occasionally better to spend the money on crabs and cocktails.”
Yiannopoulos later characterized the comment as “casually snapping” at someone, but his words highlight a greater point: that de-platforming hate-mongering internet celebrities actually works. It reduces the influence pernicious trolls like Yiannopoulos can have on national discourse. And makes their speech, though still hateful, and free, do less harm. Read more…
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View More Milo Yiannopoulos’ Facebook rant shows that de-platforming actually worksTwitter defends its decision to keep the Alex Jones conspiracy factory around
[Heavy sigh] Twitter is doing that thing again. That thing where it stands by an incoherent policy choice that is only consistent with its long historical record of inconsistency. Late Tuesday, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey took to the platform to defend his company’s choice to keep manic conspiracy theorist and hatemonger Alex Jones and his Infowars […]
View More Twitter defends its decision to keep the Alex Jones conspiracy factory aroundNobody hated Milo Yiannopoulos’s book more than Milo’s editor hated Milo’s book
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First drafts are never good, but damn, Milo Yiannopoulos, WTF kind of book manuscript did you file to Simon & Schuster?
On Wednesday, Jason Pinter, a publisher at Polis Books, tweeted out excerpts of Milo Yiannopoulos’s lawsuit against Simon & Schuster for canceling the publication of his memoir Dangerous in the February.
This section of Simon & Schuster’s rebuttal to Milo’s lawsuit over DANGEROUS. 🤭 pic.twitter.com/JxydVQpx4f
— Jason Pinter (@jasonpinter) December 27, 2017
In the suit, Yiannopoulos alleges that Simon & Schuster “wrongfully, and in bad faith, terminated the contract with Yiannopoulous in violation of its terms and cancelled Dangerous under pressure from authors, bookselling accounts, business and special-interest groups, celebrities, and various other self-appointed censors who disagreed with views expressed by Yiannopoulos.” Read more…
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View More Nobody hated Milo Yiannopoulos’s book more than Milo’s editor hated Milo’s bookThis school plans to create an ‘unsafe space’ and it’s causing controversy
A grammar school in Kent, England, is under scrutiny again for reasons that are loosely connected to the alt-right movement in the U.S.
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Milo Yiannopoulos landed an unpaid writing gig, then lost it and got his editor got fired
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Bite at the universe, and occasionally, the universe will, in fact, bite back.
So goes the most recent development in the saga of noted troll and ex-Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos’s rough week. On Thursday he lost his biggest benefactor, conservative billionaire Robert Mercer. And now, not only is he out of a job, but — get this — his presence with his latest employer was so toxic that the guy who hired him is now apparently out on his ass as well.
A brief recap: Back in February, a video from a 2016 podcast surfaced in which Milo defended the idea of relationships between grown men and young boys. “You’re misunderstanding what pedophilia means,” he said on the podcast. “Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty.” Read more…
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