If you have been watching the recent threads on twitter the past week you may have heard of Milo Yiannopoulos being banned on twitter, supposedly permanently. Milo is a journalist for Breitbart News and is known on twitter for being controversial and being blunt with his opinions. Recently he published a critical review on the new 'Ghostbusters' film. One of the four lead actresses, Leslie Jones, took offense to this review and drama ensued.
This drama, took form in twitter mentions. Back and forth both people were sending tweets, and resulted in Leslie Jones blocking Milo. Milo then tweeted about he was blocked by a "man", adding fuel to a fire. The drama between these two ended there. However followers of Milo proceeded to tweet racist and obscene things towards Leslie Jones. The tweets she received were disgusting and nobody deserves that, Milo agreed in a recent interview on CNN. From here on, the co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey tweeted Jones asking for a chat. This resulted with the ban of Milo, creating the trending hashtag "#freemilo" and "#freenero".
Twitter posted a statement declaring that the abuse Leslie Jones received was horrible and that Milo, who had been blamed, would be banned because he incited the hatred. First of all, Twitter can ban whoever they like, its a private company. However it seems that this is a completely unfair ban on Milo. There has been many reports sent to Twitter. Death and rape threats, are constant on twitter but these accounts are never banned. It was when the drama was becoming publicized by two big people that they stepped in. Milo's ban was an unfair ban. If he was banned then perhaps as Milo sais, why is Justin Bieber not banned because his fans cut themselves, its guilt by association, which is the reason why Milo was banned.
The ban would have been fair if more accounts were banned for the same reason but it was quite obvious that this was a once off to silence a right-winged man on twitter. It was unfair, but what do you think? Do you agree or disagree? Or perhaps partly agree? Tell me why!
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