Twitter Permabans Notorious Internet Troll

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Twitter has permanently suspended the account of Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, a day after the infamous internet troll helped incite his followers to send a torrent of racist abuse to Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones. Twitter confirmed that Yiannopoulos would be kept off its service for good in the future, telling Recode and BuzzFeed that it would find any new account he creates in the future, and suspend it.
 

In a statement, Twitter alluded about to the abuse directed at Leslie Jones, but didn't refer to Yiannopoulos directly.
"People should be able to express diverse opinions and beliefs on Twitter," the statement reads. "But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others. Over the past 48 hours in particular, we've seen an uptick in the number of accounts violating these policies and have taken enforcement actions against these accounts, ranging from warnings that also require the deletion of Tweets violating our policies to permanent suspension."

 

The service was criticized over its painfully slow reaction to the co-ordinated racist abuse Leslie Jones faced over the past few days, with the comedian herself calling for stricter guidelines to stamp out hate speech.

"We know many people believe we have not done enough to curb this type of behavior on Twitter," the company's statement reads. "We agree." But while banning one of its most notoriously toxic users is a good first step, Twitter is still vague on what it will actually do to curb the kind of abuse and harassment some of its users face on a daily basis. 

 

"We are continuing to invest heavily in improving our tools and enforcement systems to better allow us to identify and take faster action on abuse as it's happening and prevent repeat offenders," the company says. "We have been in the process of reviewing our hateful conduct policy to prohibit additional types of abusive behavior and allow more types of reporting, with the goal of reducing the burden on the person being targeted. We'll provide more details on those changes in the coming weeks."

The Breitbart tech editor had delighted in tormenting other Twitter users for the past few years, using such public attacks to position himself as a figurehead of the GamerGate movement, despite making his disdain for gamers clear in the years before. Previously Twitter responded to his vicious antics by removing his verified status, but allowed him to keep insulting other users and inciting his hundreds of thousands of followers to do the same — albeit without a blue tick. By banning him, Twitter has ensured other users won't need to face his insults directly, but the company will also need to prevent his fervent gang of followers from continuing his rotten legacy.

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[Hunty Bear 12,485]

lmao ew he's fucking disgusting  Twitter's mod panel finally snatched for once!

[Hunty Bear 12,485]

literally eaux lemme sanitize my mouth  

[Anna-wa 39,629]

FINALLY THEY DO SOMETHING RIGHT 

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1 minute ago, Hunty Bear said:

literally eaux lemme sanitize my mouth  

honestly I had to edit this like 4 times because I was so disgusted by parts of his backstory. This bitch is literally satan. Someone needs to permaban him from humanity.

[Jake 19,503]

One less problem without ya.  

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1 minute ago, Anna-wa said:

FINALLY THEY DO SOMETHING RIGHT 

I hope Leslie realizes what a big part her strength and voice were in getting this guy off the Twitter.  

[Anna-wa 39,629]

1 minute ago, QUINN said:

I hope Leslie realizes what a big part her strength and voice were in getting this guy off the Twitter.  

Me too. Leslie is so important to so many people out there. ? She inspires me to be honest.

[Ginger Spice 922]

Good riddance.  

[Divine 183,086]

People love to confuse the difference between "free speech" and "hate speech"  

[Darth Sidious 11,696]

I've never cared so much that he's a gay conservative, he's entitled to his opinions - no matter how idiotic and self defeating.

But he's such a smug douche bag that you can't help but hate him and he uses his platform to drag others down. 

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3 minutes ago, Matthew said:

I've never cared so much that he's a gay conservative, he's entitled to his opinions - no matter how idiotic and self defeating.

But he's such a smug douche bag that you can't help but hate him and he uses his platform to drag others down. 

Everyone is absolutely entitled to their opinions, but there's a difference between stating those opinions, and using words as weapons, as he often does.

[Darth Sidious 11,696]

Just now, QUINN said:

Everyone is absolutely entitled to their opinions, but there's a difference between stating those opinions, and using words as weapons, as he often did.

And it couldn't have happened to a nicer gey

 

[Americunt 16,422]

Yeah, it was honestly overdue. He's used Twitter as a platform to crowdsource targeted attacks on dozens of people. Props to Leslie Jones for calling him on his bluff and actually doing something about this Ken Doll cumdumpster piece of shit.

[Nick 374]

 

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2 minutes ago, Nick said:

 

THIS FUCKING GIF ALWAYS KILLS ME DFKJGHDFG

[Mitski 13,494]

Good riddance. Stay strong Leslie you remarkable Queen 

[hector 33,953]

1 hour ago, Jake said:

One less problem without ya.  

 

give that classic the promo it deserves! 

[Gabe. 46,729]

good! 

 

FOTP could learn a thing or two outta this Agugaga Lautnerfield

[Onika 23,143]

Glad this waste of oxygen has one less platform to spread his brand of hate speech ?