History repeats itself. In September 1939, Hitler launched World War II by blocking Poland on Twitter. In December 1941, the United States entered into the war after Japan subtweeted the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.
This past Friday, according to Breitbart, Twitter “declar[ed] war on conservative media” by taking away the little blue checkmark that used to run next to Breitbart “journalist” Milo Yiannopoulos’ name on Twitter, verifying that he is indeed the real Milo Yiannopoulos.
No, really. Here’s the headline of the piece that ran in Breitbart’s tech section on the terrible injustice done to young Mr. Yiannopoulos, who coincidentally just happens to run Breitbart’s tech section.
Now, Milo hasn’t actually been banned from Twitter. Twitter simply informed him that “due to [his] recent violations of the Twitter Rules” — he’s a bit of a bully — they were taking away his little blue checkmark. So now he has to navigate Twitter without a little blue checkmark, like the overwhelming majority of Twitter users.
Naturally, Milo’s army of fans has responded to this terrible tragedy with wisdom and restraint.
JUST KIDDING! They’re crying bloody murder on Twitter and harassing anyone they can blame for Milo’s de-checkmarking.
Referencing a slogan formerly used to honor journalists and others literally murdered by terrorists, Milo’s Twitter fans launched the hashtag #JeSuisMilo. It was ugly
Here are some scenes from the ongoing debacle that is that hashtag.
https://twitter.com/TheAmazingPleb/status/685651751685341184
https://twitter.com/rstafford9/status/685635514481786880
https://twitter.com/AlHolmes66/status/685863515916115969
https://twitter.com/GBedecker/status/686036916744097796
#JeSuisMilo
SJWs suck TwatLord anus at Twitter.— Rapier Half-Witt (@br549q) January 9, 2016
Naturally, there were rape jokes.
#jesuismilo Haters are going to hate, Salt is going to flow, Spread your butt cheeks darling and prepare for Milo
— Tengu Manz (@Tengumanz) January 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/MikeRotondo86/status/685666046443823104
In a variation on the old “I’m Spartacus” ploy, many of Milo’s fans pretended to be him. (The real Milo posts as @Nero)
https://twitter.com/MiloYiannopoul2/status/685699475290091520
#JeSuisMilo suck it, bitches.
— Ryuuko Matoi 🇷🇺 (@dustinherrick1) January 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/Nuclearcherries/status/685698288864079873
https://twitter.com/dunnolol4/status/685735953072193536
It didn’t take long for the Milovians to find women to blame for Milo’s plight. Many — including some of the fake Milos — went after Huffington Post writer Jessie Thompson, who wrote a piece defending Twitter’s actions. Many of her, er, critics seem to be big fans of the c-word.
https://twitter.com/QuintusMetellus/status/685867151060766722
https://twitter.com/PillboxHill/status/685927247581085696
https://twitter.com/JRocca26/status/685916008561963008
https://twitter.com/Jew_Banker/status/685901724180037636
https://twitter.com/goodboygreg/status/685845870336708608
https://twitter.com/herpefeminist/status/685849987230597121
But she wasn’t the only woman to draw the fire of the Milovians. Some used the hashtag as an excuse to attack familiar #GamerGate targets.
#JeSuisMilo Randi Harper is a fat wanna be whore who can get a man. She is repulsive and ugly.
— Evandros Vanderbilt Kensington (@evandrus33) January 9, 2016
@m55244084 Whores get paid though… Zoe does it for free .. sex I mean, She plays victim for Money though #JeSuisMilo
— The King of Worms Mannimarco (@AKingOfWorms) January 9, 2016
Others — again, including some fake Milos — used the hashtag to promote their own agendas — some silly, some horrific, some a mixture of the two.
#rape #meninism #feminismiscancer #jesuismilo #financialrape #misandry pic.twitter.com/h3gKvnRTgn
— a boy has no soul (@saumyajit_) January 10, 2016
https://twitter.com/fiendeJ/status/685643144076083201
https://twitter.com/Qildaen/status/685938406929481728
https://twitter.com/gazetchic/status/686237395893776386
#JeSuisMilo Asia for the Asians, Africa for the Africans, White nations for EVERYONE! It's #WhiteGenocide.
— ProWhitesUnite (@prowhitesunite) January 9, 2016
#MisceGenocide is genocidal, so promoting it is racist & offensive. #WhiteGenocide #Trump2016 #JeSuisMilo #tcot https://t.co/Ct2vusC8oK
— Ben L. ن⚡️🐸👌🏻 🙏🏻 RIP Ashli Babbitt 🙏🏻 (@BNLieb) January 9, 2016
@AntiMarxistMilo #JeSuisMilo #CulturalMarxism pic.twitter.com/A8l8Iisyv8
— Milo Yiannopoulos (@AntiMarxistMilo) January 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/_simpa_/status/685993767007088640
One fellow thought he knew the real reason feminists hate Milo.
#JeSuisMilo @Nero You know what? Every feminist should admit one thing: They are crazy about you. And you are unattainable. That hurts them.
— Jeff Goldblum FAN (@Super_Slav_KEK) January 9, 2016
A few even managed to work their “cuck” obsession into their Tweets.
First the Gamers rose up with #Gamergate
Now everyone that isn't an Beta cuck or Brainwashed Feminist is rising up with #JeSuisMilo— EVEILCHARM (@EveilCharm) January 9, 2016
In the news: Twitter went full cuck, Adolf Merkel gets more laws for something her immigrants did, and Milo reings supreme. #JeSuisMilo
— Jeff Goldblum FAN (@Super_Slav_KEK) January 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/Ideo_Vames/status/685659660104368129
You can tell something about writers by the fans they attract. Milo’ fans prove with every terrible tweet of their what a wretched bunch of bullies and bigots they are — and why Twitter needs to do more to crack down on the abuse that its platform enables.
Congratulations, Milo defenders, for own-goaling yourself so magnificently.
@Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
Great. Now I’m imagining MRA bacteria chemosynthesizing nutritious projection to live off of. Quite frankly, I’d prefer regular bacteria.
And he’s just made a distasteful tweet about David Bowie. What a desperate trolling arse of a man he is.
My first thought when I saw that “wallet-rape” meme was “The guy who wrote this totally scams restaurants for free meals and harasses the wait staff all the time.”
What do you wanna bet that I’m right?
Wonder how soon Twitter will capitulate to Milo and his horde’s bullying and give him back his blue check mark. Seems like that’s what they tend to do with such Tweeters.
@Andzzz: Remember, this is the turd who felt the need to let everyone know he thought that “Malala Yousafzai Is Becoming a Bit of a Bore”.
All these human horseapples should be awarded a red checkmark. Red checkmarks should do two things:
1 It locks down your current ‘nym permanently. (Like being Milo? Now you’re him forever!)
2 it aggregates all offenses against the twitter TOS across the ‘nym and applies them to all red-checkmarked accounts with that ‘nym, and
(…wait. Three things! It should do three things!)
3 If you block a red-checkmarked account, all other red-checkmarked accounts with that ‘nym are also automatically blocked, and
(Four things! I meant four things!)
4 If you attempt to make a new account with an alternative email and use a red-flagged address as backup/emergency retrieval, the new email address is helpfully also red-checkmarked.
(and a fanatical allegiance to the Pope! )
(I hope this comment isn’t redundant, I haven’t gotten all the way through the comments yet. >_>)
His entire wallet.
I also bet that he’s the type to throw a tantrum if the date he (deliberately) paid dinner for says no to sex. He probably accuses her of fraud, or even “financial rape by fraud.”
This is the point where I just can’t even with assholes taking feminist terms, using them in ways they certainly don’t apply, and expecting to be validated because what? They severely misappropriated a word or two? WORDS MEAN THINGS, IDIOTS.
Do you think some folks in Hollywood are in a panic?
here Milo talks about an incident that occurred in Hollywood 8 years ago with very young boys
Milo is aged 31yrs , so he was aged 23 when it occurred.. he wasn’t a young boy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE8a_PMx0z0
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/01/the-kernel
Hard to know what to think of Milo. The Bowie tweets were in bad taste (including ‘Nice try upstaging me’) but some people seem to love him. It’s like a weird cult. He is completely different from the usual MRA losers but then he’s so obviously putting on an act.
More things I just noticed: Didn’t the #Gits pull this exact same act after RogueStar was banned from Twitter? Name changes, matching avatars, “I am Spartacus,” the whole nine yards?
Milo was probably committing Twitter offenses almost every day. Verifying a troll account pretty much defeats the purpose of verification.
There really is nothing the manurespherians won’t be raging assholes about. They said shitty things when Robin Williams died and now they’re being assholes about David Bowie? Going after fans of two beloved entertainers, both of them men. So men’s human rightsy!
http://h.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/620×350/poster/2015/01/3040870-poster-p-2-the-faces-of-bowie.gif
David Bowie’s too absolutely spectacular to give two chits about what someone like Milo has to say about his life.
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Gods, I’m way more saddened by his death than I usually am by a celebrity’s passing.
🙁
@mockingbird
David Bowie pushed for more PoC artists to get airplay on MTV. He was married to the same woman for 25 years or so, and by the reports I’ve seen, they were still very much in love.
David Bowie may’ve died too soon, but he still had a better life than Milo or any of his followers.
@NiOg
and nice red uniforms! (oh bugger!)
Look at their astounding vocabulary, which amounts to nothing more than gendered slurs and crude sexual humor. Yup, these are Milo’s fans, alright.
Milo and his fans are made for each other. It’s a match made in heaven (more like hell). Dickheads of a feather really do flock together.
Truth.
Today is a hard day.
Oh, also, how classy of them to use a hashtag like that for their childish little tantrum over a hack “journalist.” It really shows how sheltered they are and how they more than likely haven’t faced any amount of real hardships in their pathetic over-privileged lives.
It’s actually about ethics in how to be a shitty person. Fuck Milo and his fans, and fuck goobergloop (I’m not going to mention their little shit movement by name).
Meanwhile, on Twitter, Milo and his fanboys are claiming credit for Twitter’s declining stock price. People who sold their stock in the company to protest this blatant attack on the freeze peaches are urged to get in touch!
These people really enjoy the word cunt, but you’d think for being such free speech warriors that they’d switch it up now and then. I don’t think there’s a war on conservative media, but with turds like this, there needs to be one.
After his appearance on that Reggie Yates documentary, it all clicked. He reminds me of the tedious hacks from student arguing societies, that I keep encountering in pubs: Unflappable, self-assured and calmly saying something ridiculous just for the debating practice. Which is all harmless entertainment when they’re talking about abstracts, but a lot of them think that other people’s lived experiences are abstract concepts too.
Cyberwulf,
Milo is responsible for the things he says not the things other people impersonating him say.
-Ben
And he’s being held accountable for the things he has said which violate the TOS he needs to follow if he wants to be Twitter verified. If he wants that checkmark, he need to follow the TOS.
Ben,
No, he doesn’t have control of what is his fans say, but if he has a fan base full of racist, misogynistic assholes, that says something about him. And as Kupo said, he didn’t get his blue check taken away because of anything his fans did. He violated the tos, and if his account didn’t get suspended or deleted he got off pretty light.
Off Topic but RIP Mr. Bowie. You were an amazing act to follow.