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> ... Twitter banned Milo Yiannopoulos for bigoted comments which his followers posted.

This is an incredibly weird way of characterizing what happened.

Milo's account was permanently suspended after he made a series of racist, sexist comments targeting Leslie Jones (a black actress who had recently starred in Ghostbusters), and directed his followers to make similar comments. This was not a first offense, either; Milo's account had been suspended on multiple previous occasions for similar harassment campaigns.

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yes, that link is rather biased, here's one from a little more the other side (http://college.usatoday.com/2016/07/25/the-whole-leslie-jone...), its almost impossible to find anything objective on it, but I followed it at the time and after looking at both sides, it looked most like he called her a hot black guy and fat (http://www.vox.com/2016/7/20/12226070/milo-yiannopoulus-twit...), and then his followers as well as Leslie went overboard with racists and ridiculous comments. Her comments have also been extremely racists in the past (http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/07/20/double-standards-le...) so it just highlighted a double standard.

Anyway, he is a troll and Twitter was in its full right even according to their guidelines to ban both of them. They banned him not her. That's the whole explanation for that short sentence which is why I formulated it the way I did because I didn't want to explain it all to people who might not care too much.

> Milo's account was permanently suspended after he made a series of racist, sexist comments targeting Leslie Jones

Show me one.

Indeed, it was she who incited violence.

Edit: downvotes yet this is patently true. She ordered her followers to "get him" in reference to Milo.

Edit 2: I was mistaken about the individual she directed her followers to "get", it was a user by the handle of @whitebecky1776.

Edit3: I stand by my claim of her incitement to violence.

Upvote for correcting yourself. I always respect people who can do this. Too few can and too many should.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/20/milo-yiannopoulos...

I can't find ones in that case (since his account his expended) but I can still find older news articles, like his #WorldPatriarchyDay post which was targeted at someone.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/16/sexbots-w...

> by MILO 16 Sep 2015

> I mean, look, I don’t mean to be rude, but most of the reason I went gay is so I didn’t have to deal with nutty broads. Imagine how much worse they’re going to get when the passive aggressive manipulation tactics stop working because the guy can get himself off with a thinner, hotter robot any time he wants to. They’re going to go mental.

I'm sorry but pretending Milo isn't sexist is like pretending water isn't wet.

Citing the tweets is difficult. The account is suspended, making its tweets unavailable, and most of the news articles which quoted them did so using the Twitter embed API, which went dark along with the original tweets.

Vox has some screenshots in this article, though:

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/20/12226070/milo-yiannopoulus-twit...

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