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Twitter on Tuesday night permanently banned conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos from using its service.the tech editor for right-wing side Breitbart.com, is known for making provocative statements. The suspension comes after years of complaints that Yiannopoulos used his account to egg on his hundreds of thousands of followers.
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He is said to have sparked a wave of racist and sexist harassment against "Ghostbusters" star Leslie Jones that ended with Jones saying in the early hours of Tuesday morning she was leaving Twitter. BuzzFeed reported that the incident had led to Yiannopoulos — who used the handle @nero — being banned for life.
Yiannopoulos, when asked about his tweets about Jones, mocked her in comments to his employer.
A Twitter spokesperson did not respond to a question about what policy violation specifically led to Yiannopoulos’s suspension.
The spokesperson, in a statement, said that the company had taken action against accounts that had engaged in harassment or abuse over the last 48 hours but did not specifically name the Yiannopoulos.
“People should be able to express diverse opinions and beliefs on Twitter,” said a Twitter official in a statement. “But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others.”
“Over the past 48 hours in particular, we’ve seen an uptick in the number of accounts violating these policies and have taken enforcement actions against these accounts, ranging from warnings that also require the deletion of Tweets violating our policies to permanent suspension.”
The company has long struggled to contain abuse and harassment rampant on its platform, often from anonymous users. In response to the harassment against Jones, it said it was continuing to invest in dealing with the problem — something the spokesperson reiterated in the company’s Tuesday night statement.
“We have been in the process of reviewing our hateful conduct policy to prohibit additional types of abusive behavior and allow more types of reporting, with the goal of reducing the burden on the person being targeted,” the official said. “We’ll provide more details on those changes in the coming weeks.”
Yiannopoulos did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He told Breitbart that "this is the end for Twitter."
Essentially the bans were in reaction to the shitstorm following the release of the utterly horrendous Ghostbusters remake.
What did they expect? A cast which seems to have been chosen by the rule: "find the ugliest and most unfunny actors on this planet" sullies peoples childhood heroes in the most despicable manner and when people react to that atrocity, its somehow racism and misogyny?
what happened was this guy has some impressionable young white guys following him and he told them hey go be racist
Even if that is true (its hard to check, with the @nero account beeing closed), and we accept for a moment that it would be sensible to issue lifetime bans to people for the behavior of their followers. There is another huge elephant in the room.
There are still users affiliated with ISIS on twitter, urging their followers to kill as many europeans as possible. They are happily posting videos of their latest beheadings, or how they just threw some gays off a roof. No one at twitter seems to care about that. Instead, protecting a horrible actress, who obviously just does not know how to block offensive people, is their first priority. Seems a bit strange to me.
Oh wait... on second thought... the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a major shareholder of twitter. So yeah, it figures.
Cool post, I said the same. I'm in favor of Jill Stein having an important position on President Trump's cabinet. Milo is the only one crazy enough to help make that happen!
https://steemit.com/politics/@limitless/gay-conservative-writer-milo-yiannopoulos-permanently-banned-from-twitter
1.) trump is working for clinton.
2.) milo cant make anything happen hes basicaly a conservative kardashian
Where are the Milo sex tapes? In fore Milo, Peter Thiel, and Mike Pence 3some sex tape LOL