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Minecraft Creator Rips Twitter for Milo Yiannopoulos Lifetime Ban

posted by CoolHand on Thursday July 21 2016, @05:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the fair-play dept.

MrPlow writes:

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Conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos received big-name support on Wednesday for reversing his lifetime Twitter ban: Minecraft creator Markus Persson.

Twitter froze Mr. Yiannopoulos' account on Tuesday after barbed exchanges with "Ghostbusters" star Leslie Jones. The Breitbart News tech editor seemingly was banned for the racist comments made by other users. Mr. Persson told his nearly 4 million followers that Twitter's actions were absurd.

"I think the guy's a bit of a [expletive], but for the love of Christ, #FreeMilo," the video game icon said Wednesday morning. "If/when I get suspended too, check http://notch.net. I've reported tweets worse than anything (well.. almost) Nero's ever said, and the reply is always the same: Nope."

Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/20/markus-persson-minecraft-creator-rips-twitter-for-/

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  • (Score: 2) by mojo chan on Friday July 22 2016, @11:22AM

    by mojo chan (266) on Friday July 22 2016, @11:22AM (#378450)

    I'm going to wait for the result of the lawsuit and any information that comes from it before passing final judgement, but it does look to be a colossal misjudgement by the college. It's likely to be a complex case because there will be a 1st Amendment angle, but the college does appear to have failed in its duty to protect him from bullying and harassment.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @02:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @02:36PM (#378532)
    The 1st Amendment protects slander, as long as you call it "art"? Ok then...

  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday July 23 2016, @01:47AM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <bassbeast1968NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Saturday July 23 2016, @01:47AM (#378881) Journal

    Appears? Appears? He had fucking texts from the day after the "rape" from the "victim" singing his praises and wanting to hook back up. Now is that in ANY way, shape, or form believable to you? Oh and it was only AFTER he said "no thanks" (because he said she was stalkerish and creepy) that suddenly it became "rape".

    She needs to be in fucking jail, she spit in the faces of every legitimate rape victim and what was done to her? She got an award and extra credits....yeah and again who says SJWs don't rule college campuses?

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    • (Score: 2) by mojo chan on Saturday July 23 2016, @09:04AM

      by mojo chan (266) on Saturday July 23 2016, @09:04AM (#378977)

      Read up on how people react to and process rape by people they otherwise trust or have a relationship with. This is not uncommon, basically because it's hard to accept someone you like would rape you.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @02:36PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @02:36PM (#379053)
        And there's the SJW doublethink. Evidence for rape means it was rape, and evidence AGAINST rape means it was rape. All evidence of any nature always points to rape.