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I imagine a good part of that is because he led a brigade of followers that would go out and harass other users.
by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I imagine a good part of that is because he led a brigade of followers that would go out and harass other users.
- fernandotakai 8y agoif that's true, that rule should be applied to everyone, not only milo. there are more right and left-wing fringe users that love to brigade other users.
- mhh__ 8y agoPerhaps I'm playing devils advocate by saying this, but: Isn't Milo one of the most well known cases of this? e.g. "Dealing" with him would help the twitter brand the most visibly.
- lainga 8y agoI'm not sure the average Twitter user wants Twitter to "deal" with him like they're Vito Corleone.
- iosDrone 8y agoCan you clarify how he "led a brigade." Point me to an example where he encouraged his followers to say derogatory things?
- s73v3r_ 8y agoHow about when he said that people should, "Start killing journalists," and then the next day someone opened fire at a newsroom.
- nailer 8y agoThat's a massive bending of the truth. It was said as a private response to a journalist asking him for comment, and clearly in jest. > The truth, as always, is the opposite of what the media tells you. I sent a troll about “vigilante death squads” as a private response to a few hostile journalists who were asking me for comment, basically as a way of saying, “Fuck off.” They then published it. Amazed they were pretending to take my joke as a “threat,” I reposted these stories on Instagram to mock them — and to make it clear that I wasn’t being serious. https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/posts/1194490660688827 https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/posts/119449066068882...
- s73v3r_ 8y agoGiven his track record, I'm not going to believe a single word of his facebook post. Find another source that does not rely on that post to prove the point.
- nailer 8y agoI'm not sure what track record you're speaking of - historically people making these kinds of claims have been found to have lied about Milo. Are you saying the screenshots on his instagram are doctored?
- s73v3r_ 8y agoNone of those claims have been found to be lies. They are based on his own words and actions. I will not take anything on his instagram as any kind of proof of anything; he has absolutely no credibility on anything.
- nailer 8y agoDo you think Milo is a white nationalist? Or that he's homophobic? Since you know he fabricated the screenshots, have you contacted a journalist? This is a huge scoop and hasn't been reported yet.
- ericras 8y agoI was watching his feed in real time the night he was banned. He wasn't directing people to do anything. He was trashing the Ghostbusters movie and called one of the female actresses a "black dude". It may have been tasteless but it wasn't brigading.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoYour account of events are very different than reality. You're also ignoring him forging the tweets from her, and referring to a black woman as an "ape".