Twitter Just Permanently Suspended Conservative Writer Milo Yiannopoulos
https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/twitter-just-permanently-suspended-conservative-writer-milo?utm_term=.nl6X6jJD4#.xm7xmk0o6
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. But this week he went far. According to
Twitter, it was Yiannopoulos who led the harassment campaign
against Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones that inspired the SNL
cast member's decision to leave Twitter. The tweets, many of
which targeted Jones for being black and a woman, were the
final straw for Twitter, which is taking steps to try to solve
its harassment problem.
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