Milo Yiannopoulos banned from Twitter.

[New Werpland]

Let's make it twenty feet tall and a circle, run electricity through it, and put violent xenophobes and racists in it.

Or put illegal immigrants in it.

I can also call for herding people into camps as well : ^ )

Good thing I only advocated for walling them in.

[Alvecia]

He'd be one heartbeat away from the presidency, for one. And presiding the Senate.

I'll concede here due to the likelihood of Trump getting assassinated.

Also fair to point out that it's not like people are going to say "There is no reason to listen to anything the Vice-President has to say".
Well, not in the White House at least.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

Without knowing the context of what she was replying to, you can't say whether this was truly bigoted or not. Considering the nature of her comedy, this looks like out of context cherrypicking to make her look bad, but I'm willing to change my mind once actual context for the quotes is provided. It seems an easy thing to do, and the fact that the original comments and/or questions aren't there makes me suspicious.

"Comedy"

Let's not be generous here.

Breakout star of SNL last year, and one of their top writers, as well. Twenty years on the standup circuit, with numerous fans, including Chris Rock, who recommended her for the SNL writing gig, which led to appearances and an eventual placement in the main cast halfway through the year. Whatever your personal tastes may be, what she does is considered comedy by people who would know about such things (Lorne Michaels, Chris Rock, Louis CK, et al).

[Atomic Utopia]

Cool. Good for Twitter. It is a private company and they are under no obligation to serve him and reserve the right to deny service should he annoying other patrons. Well he did annoy other patrons repeatedly and thus he was banned.

I don't understand what the alt-right people are whining about in this case.

[Yorkers]

Or put illegal immigrants in it.

I can also call for herding people into camps as well : ^ )

Good thing I only advocated for walling them in.

Are you really acting like putting people in a pen surrounded by electrified fence is anything but an enlarged gulag.

[Katganistan]

You suspect correctly. It's almost as if that sort of this is spelled out in our TOS, FAQ and The One Stop Rules Shop.

I've lasted long enough without reading any of those.

I can infer from this that you have a rare case of Good Sense and are able to debate without resorting to hurling invective at your opponents.

[Yorkers]

"Comedy"

Let's not be generous here.

Breakout star of SNL last year, and one of their top writers, as well. Twenty years on the standup circuit, with numerous fans, including Chris Rock, who recommended her for the SNL writing gig, which led to appearances and an eventual placement in the main cast halfway through the year. Whatever your personal tastes may be, what she does is considered comedy by people who would know about such things (Lorne Michaels, Chris Rock, Louis CK, et al).

Twenty years and only Chris Rock and Louis CK ring a bell, and of those, only Chris Rock is actually funny.

And hmm, I guess that explains why SNL just isn't what it used to be. Bring back the 90s. I want Kevin Nealon.

[Liriena]

How? What would you consider reliable evidence?

At the very least explain, how in your opinion, the alt right has normalized verbal abuse.

I think the alt-right has normalized verbal abuse insofar as it gave much of the lingo of places such as /pol/ a place in outlets like Breitbart and the like, outlets with a modicum of legitimacy as part of the media. Milo Yiannopoulos' style is a far cry from that of people like Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity. Not even Ann Coulter, who made a career out of employing outrageous rhetoric, utilizes the same sort of language. Juvenile, meme-inspired, half-way between internet trolling and sincere reactionary rhetoric. Openly seeking not just to offend on an ideological or intellectual level, but also on an identity level. Baiting racist, misogynistic and anti-semitic memes galore, and semi-organized mob action online to harrass individual figures or specific groups with the intent of causing, not mere annoyance, but a deeper emotional harm.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

Breakout star of SNL last year, and one of their top writers, as well. Twenty years on the standup circuit, with numerous fans, including Chris Rock, who recommended her for the SNL writing gig, which led to appearances and an eventual placement in the main cast halfway through the year. Whatever your personal tastes may be, what she does is considered comedy by people who would know about such things (Lorne Michaels, Chris Rock, Louis CK, et al).

Twenty years and only Chris Rock and Louis CK ring a bell, and of those, only Chris Rock is actually funny.

And hmm, I guess that explains why SNL just isn't what it used to be. Bring back the 90s. I want Kevin Nealon.

Another solid performer. Point is, whether you consider her material funny or not, she's a professional comedian. I mean, I think that Dane Cook is terrible, but what he does qualifies as standup comedy whether I personally like it or not.

[Yorkers]

Or put illegal immigrants in it.

I can also call for herding people into camps as well : ^ )

wew lad

inb4 banned and vanned

I'm not actually advocating for that.

[Tiatan]

My problem with it isn't that he was banned, it's that she wasn't banned as well. They both broke Twitter's ToS but only one of them gets contacted the CEO for a chat and other is banned.
They can legally do whatever they want but people tend to like some sort of reliability when it comes to rules.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

My problem with it isn't that he was banned, it's that she wasn't banned as well. They both broke Twitter's ToS but only one of them gets contacted the CEO for a chat and other is banned.
They can legally do whatever they want but people tend to like some sort of reliability when it comes to rules.

How did she break Twitter's TOS?

[Tiatan]

My problem with it isn't that he was banned, it's that she wasn't banned as well. They both broke Twitter's ToS but only one of them gets contacted the CEO for a chat and other is banned.
They can legally do whatever they want but people tend to like some sort of reliability when it comes to rules.

How did she break Twitter's TOS?

One of the trolls likened her to Harambe. She took a screenshot of it, tweeted "Exposing I hope y'all go after them like they going after me".
That breaks the 'inciting others to harass another account' bit of the rules.

[Alvecia]

How did she break Twitter's TOS?

One of the trolls likened her to Harambe. She took a screenshot of it, tweeted "Exposing I hope y'all go after them like they going after me".
That breaks the 'inciting others to harass another account' bit of the rules.

If we use NS as a parallel, given her record, a warning would be more appropriate. Milo has been warned several times already so a ban is more appropriate.

[Khadgar]

How did she break Twitter's TOS?

One of the trolls likened her to Harambe. She took a screenshot of it, tweeted "Exposing I hope y'all go after them like they going after me".
That breaks the 'inciting others to harass another account' bit of the rules.

How can twitter ban someone who deleted their account? I guess they could send her a strongly worded letter explaining that she's been banned in absentia.

[Gauthier]

One of the trolls likened her to Harambe. She took a screenshot of it, tweeted "Exposing I hope y'all go after them like they going after me".
That breaks the 'inciting others to harass another account' bit of the rules.

How can twitter ban someone who deleted their account? I guess they could send her a strongly worded letter explaining that she's been banned in absentia.

Cadaver Synod Style. Dig it back up then ban it.

[Prussia-Steinbach]

And please, anti-feminist =/= anti-women.

Oh, yeah, not anti-women. Just anti-women's rights.

[Tiatan]

If we use NS as a parallel, given her record, a warning would be more appropriate. Milo has been warned several times already so a ban is more appropriate.

Maybe though Twitter seems to deal with warnings via temporary bans which then loops back to my original point. However...

How can twitter ban someone who deleted their account? I guess they could send her a strongly worded letter explaining that she's been banned in absentia.

It's true we have no idea what @jack said to her so a warning or even suggestion of closing the account may have been part of it. When I originally made the post, the account was still up as far as I knew. It'd been up the last that I had seen.

Cadaver Synod Style. Dig it back up then ban it.

Hah!

With both of them off of the site for the moment, I don't really care either way anymore. If both or one or neither end up back on there, ah well.

[Lupolska]

wew lad

inb4 banned and vanned

I'm not actually advocating for that.

Depending on who you ask, you don't have to be actually advocating for that (to warrant a ban from a given platform).

[New Axiom]

Good god. I never understood why people get so butt hurt over a stupid fucking website. They didn't have to read the offensive posts, that was their choice. People who are stupid enough to read-and be affected by-somebodies posts on Twitter, they shouldn't be allowed on the interwebs.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

And please, anti-feminist =/= anti-women.

Oh, yeah, not anti-women. Just anti-women's rights.

Well, there are egalitarians who don't like feminism, or associating with it.

They believe both men and women are equal, they just hate the label "feminist" for their own personal reasons.

[Khadgar]

Oh, yeah, not anti-women. Just anti-women's rights. :roll:

Well, there are egalitarians who don't like feminism, or associating with it.

They believe both men and women are equal, they just hate the label "feminist" for their own personal reasons.

I suspect because the word Feminist has been turned into a slur in the same was Liberal was a few years back.

[Freefall11111]

Nothing of value was lost.

[-Fahrong-]

I knew it would only be a matter of time before the liberal world order took out the growing threat.

[The balkens]

And please, anti-feminist =/= anti-women.

Oh, yeah, not anti-women. Just anti-women's rights.

Thats the funniest thing ive seen today/