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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 cubancigar11 on Friday July 22 2016, @02:15PM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Friday July 22 2016, @02:15PM (#378515) Homepage Journal

    You could have gone through my comment history before making a guess.

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