Milo Yiannoupoulis banned!

[DaveCinzano]

I would argue that crowdfunded journalism, especially project-specific canvassing (as with Lyra McKee on her Robert Bradford murder investigation), is not all about big donations from “people [who] have mountains of cash to burn”, and that it can be a very positive way for journalists to engage with audiences, and vice versa (caveats apply, etc).

(I note however that Lyra McKee's chosen platform, Beacon Reader, was recently shuttered; here's an earlier article for the OJB website in which she discusses ‘digital native’ journalism.)

I suspect that the success or failure of a particular crowdfunding effort depends less on the topic on offer, or even the quality of the writing, but on a critical mass of social media visibility being in place to start with.

Hence Penny's swift success as noted above, or Asher Wolf (Twitter followers: 48,500) securing nearly $1,200 per month for tweeting alone (there's not even a single article or blog post on her Patreon page). Wolf is currently using her Twitter account to fully support Penny's massaging of alt right egos; apparently is she were a man softsoaping Milo and Team Breitbart then nobody would have a problem, or something.

 

[Sweet FA]

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I can see why she and 'Milo' get on so well. Both are soulless grifters with few actual beliefs. Both are also very successful at using their own, endlessly elastic, identities to con ignorant people out of money.

Dunno whether it's real but it just popped up on my fb...

 

[Treacle Toes]

Milo Yiannopoulos 'planned to out undocumented students' at a university talk

 

[DotCommunist]

Milo Yiannopoulos 'planned to out undocumented students' at a university talk

vere are your papers?

 

[snadge]

Laurie fucking Penny or Red or fucking whatever and Milo fucking peado apologist Yiannopoulos are peas out of the same pod.

Fuck them both, they want a career.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Man I wish I was back in the halcyon days of an internet. I was so innocent back then. Back when it was all pornography and star trek.

 

[two sheds]

I'd say "they had star trek?" but it would be misconstrued.

 

[DotCommunist]

Man I wish I was back in the halcyon days of an internet. I was so innocent back then. Back when it was all pornography and star trek.

it really was like a geek wild west. Before security certicates and ecommerce made it all sanitised.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I'd say "they had star trek?" but it would be misconstrued.

For a brief time back in the early/mid 90's star trek actually made an appreciable fraction of all websites. From what i have heard for a while they outweighed porn.

 

[DotCommunist]

For a brief time back in the early/mid 90's star trek actually made an appreciable fraction of all websites. From what i have heard for a while they outweighed porn.

lines blur here if you include slashfic

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I only count kirk/spock as cannon

 

[NoXion]

For a brief time back in the early/mid 90's star trek actually made an appreciable fraction of all websites. From what i have heard for a while they outweighed porn.

Your post reminded me of a website I used to visit back in the day. Turns out that the Starship Schematics Database is still going and is still updated, no less. Kind of impressive.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I only count kirk/spock as cannon

What, and are Bones and Uhura jobsharing Ball?

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Milo Fans so #triggered right now

Milo Yiannopoulos' book deal was just cancelled

 

[DaveCinzano]

Typical - no mention of the really important aspect of this:

 

[Treacle Toes]

Fucked off by Breitbart too possibly?

But the controversy surrounding perhaps the most prominent figure of Breitbart – save for Steve Bannon – has led to the possible exodus of staff of the right-wing publication.

"The fact of the matter is that there’s been so many things that have been objectionable about Milo over the last couple of years, quite frankly. This is something far more sinister,” a senior editor for Breitbart told the DC-area magazine The Washingtonion.

"If the company isn’t willing to act, there are at least half a dozen people who are willing to walk out over it."

I am struggling to give a 10th of a fuck tbh.

 

[Casually Red]

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Milo Fans so #triggered right now

Milo Yiannopoulos' book deal was just cancelled

Hopefully this preening turd will become unemployable now, at the very least . If he's attended parties were he's witnessed the sexual assault ...rape in fact...of " very young boys " and hasn't informed the authorities then hes the lowest of the low . I've no idea whether not reporting its a crime or not but it definitely should be . It's morally heinous . And tells us a lot about him , the very fact he'd be invited in the first place by these fucking degenerates to witness their depraved antics .

I think the worlds about to fall in on this fuck . This has the distinct whiff of " game over " .

I'd laugh my bollocks off if Trump deports him as an undesirable alien .

 

[Wookey]

If he's attended parties were he's witnessed the sexual assault ...rape in fact...of " very young boys " and hasn't informed the authorities then hes the lowest of the low . I've no idea whether not reporting its a crime or not but it definitely should be . It's morally heinous . And tells us a lot about him , the very fact he'd be invited in the first place by these fucking degenerates to witness their depraved antics .

Where are you getting the "fact" that he's witnessed child rape at parties, I've missed that bit??

He's vile enough as it is, I don't think we need to exaggerate.

 

[flustercuck]

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If he's attended parties were he's witnessed the sexual assault ...rape in fact...of " very young boys " and hasn't informed the authorities then hes the lowest of the low .

I suspect he might end up being a accessory to assault, possibly be charged himself. All of which would put the right wing poster boy on a different type of poster indeed.

 

[Wookey]

Where are you getting the "fact" that he's witnessed child rape at parties, I've missed that bit??

He's vile enough as it is, I don't think we need to exaggerate.

Ah, I just watched the video of the podcast.. He says it quite clearly.

He's not a nice human is he.

 

[Vintage Paw]

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Funny to watch him squirming over this. Mr "there are no boundaries to free speech" is suddenly all regretful about what he says when he starts losing money over it.

 

[J Ed]

Reassuring that the alt right has decided that actually paedophilia is bad, thought it might go either way there for a second.

 

[Dogsauce]

Milo Fans so #triggered right now

Milo Yiannopoulos' book deal was just cancelled

I guess the publisher was OK with his racism etc.

What is it with the far-right and kid-fucking? A sense of entitlement? A disregard of rules/boundaries? A lack of empathy/humanity? Which one leads to the other?

 

[bimble]

Quite pleasing to see: Brietbart seemingly doesn't know what to do, has no mention of their senior editor since announcing his forthcoming speech 2 days ago.
The most recent article about him on there says "MILO has become one of the most visible faces in American conservatism over the past two years" .

 

[SaskiaJayne]

I have no idea whether Milo is a paedo or not. If he has committed crime then his victims may come forward in the fullness of time & the law should take it's course. His probable career ruining error of judgement is that in order to be totally outrageous he has gone a step too far & appears to be condoning sexually abusing boys. I think the purpose of his carefully constructed act as an outrageously gay right winger is to cause a conundrum in that left wing liberals might hesitate to condemn him out of hand because of he is gay & he can find favour with right wingers by railing against muslims on the grounds of homophobia within Islam despite the relgious right not being comfortable with gays either. Milo's act requires him at all times to stay just about on the right side of things & on this occasion he has failed to engage brain before opening mouth. His act requires his audience to be outraged but not disgusted.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

You have to love the hypocrisy of the right who wailed about students at Berkeley who protested his appearance there. They complained that the left doesn't really believe in free speech, because if they did they wouldn't have prevented him from speaking. Now, they're so outraged that they won't allow him to speak at their own convention. I wonder if they can even see the intellectual dishonesty of it.

 

[Nylock]

You have to love the hypocrisy of the right who wailed about students at Berkeley who protested his appearance there. They complained that the left doesn't really believe in free speech because if they did they would prevented him from speaking. Now, they're so outraged that they won't allow him to speak on their convention. I wonder if they can even see the intellectual dishonesty of it.

I very much doubt it.

 

[Casually Red]

. I think the purpose of his carefully constructed act as an outrageously gay right winger is to cause a conundrum in that left wing liberals might hesitate to condemn him out of hand because of he is gay & he can find favour with right wingers by railing against muslims on the grounds of homophobia within Islam despite the relgious right not being comfortable with gays either..

But that utter stupidity is at the root of how and why this glorified troll has caused such a ruckus in the first place . His sexual preferences..with consenting adults that is....shouldn't make a difference . That it does has given him a credence and a card among some he simply doesn't deserve . Identity politics ends up like supporting football teams . He was wise to this and just started taking easy penalty kicks time and time again . Despite talking shit himself he was able to tie many of his opponents up in knots because of the amount of utter shite they were coming out with .
Laurie penny is his bestie these days . You can bet the house on it it's only because he's gay and therefore has a card to play with wankers like that . He shouldn't have . it's just tribalism, nothing whatsoever to do with socialism .

Hopefully that's the end of him now .

 

[bimble]

I think the purpose of his carefully constructed act as an outrageously gay right winger is to cause a conundrum in that left wing liberals might hesitate to condemn him out of hand because of he is gay ...

I've not noticed any sign of this reticence 'because he's gay'. have you?