{"id":43926,"date":"2016-07-21T07:28:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T11:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=43926"},"modified":"2016-07-21T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T11:29:20","slug":"anti-free-speech-left-celebrates-the-twitter-ban-of-milo-yiannopoulos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=43926","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Free Speech Left Celebrates the Twitter Ban of Milo Yiannopoulos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->by William Hicks<br \/>\nHEATSTREET.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With the fall of alt-right firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos \u2014 er, I mean, his ban from Twitter \u2014 come the enthusiastic cries of joy from the left. Censoring one of the right\u2019s most controversial voices is apparently a victory in the eyes of those who put comfort over free speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gamergate nemeses, liberals, and SJWs took to Twitter to make their arguments for why Milo should be off the platform for good.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">milo yiannopoulos was not a &quot;provocateur&quot; or a &quot;troll.&quot; he was a dangerous, chronically abusive harasser with a cult of neo-nazi followers<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sarah Nyberg (@srhbutts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/srhbutts\/status\/755602478272348162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i&#39;m enjoying gloating re milo as much as anyone but until twitter makes actual policy changes this single ban just makes him a martyr for BS<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud83c\udf0f\ud83d\udd0eLeigh Alexander \ud83d\udc2c\ud83d\udcbf\u2728 (@leighalexander) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leighalexander\/status\/755735399679528960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Banning Milo from Twitter isn&#39;t an act against free speech, it&#39;s an act of removing a turd from a pool that most of us enjoy swimming in.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pundamentalism (@Pundamentalism) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pundamentalism\/status\/755769823406194688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/Onision\/status\/755657041197301761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Milo was a threat to the free speech of the women &amp; ethnic minorities he targeted in hate storms. His removal is a net gain for free speech.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanDunt\/status\/755741022412496896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you are a man in media, consider restarting your brain &amp; upgrading the OS before tweeting about whether or not Milo should&#39;ve been banned<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Veronica de Souza (@HeyVeronica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyVeronica\/status\/755736789608988673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/jephjacques\/status\/755665671183368192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/Nick_Pettigrew\/status\/755651663088713728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">let&#39;s remember milo the way he wanted us to <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8TdEsC9E2t\">pic.twitter.com\/8TdEsC9E2t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brendan James (@deep_beige) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deep_beige\/status\/755589217003180032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">RIP Milo. You will be missed by \u2014 well, not these folks\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/heatst.com\/culture-wars\/anti-free-speech-left-celebrates-the-twitter-ban-of-milo-yiannopoulos\/\">http:\/\/heatst.com\/culture-wars\/anti-free-speech-left-celebrates-the-twitter-ban-of-milo-yiannopoulos\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}