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Today's Birthday, October 18: Milo Yiannopoulos, British far-right wing commentator (1984 - )
Milo Yiannopoulos was banned from entering Australia for a speaking tour this year after he made "appalling" comments on social media about the Christchurch terror attack.
In the comments the alt-right provocateur blamed "the left" for radicalising the attacker, intimating that the far-right had nothing to answer for.
"Attacks like this happen because the establishment panders to and mollycoddles extremist leftism and barbaric, alien religious cultures," he said in the widely shared social media post.
The comments came just a day after the attack, which saw 51 people killed by a far-right wing extremist who live-streamed his murderous rampage through the quiet city on New Zealand's South Island.
Australia's Immigration Minister David Coleman barred Yiannopoulos from entering the country, describing his comments on social media as "appalling and foment hatred and division".
Yiannopoulos was also banned from Facebook, resigned from his role as senior editor at Breitbart and lost a $US250 000 ($A370,000) book deal this year.
Milo Yiannopoulos was born in Chatham in the English county of Kent.
He attended both Manchester University and Cambridge, but subsequently dropped out of both schools before he could be expelled for what he claims were "trivial reasons".
"I didn't show up to supervisions, didn't submit any essays and spent most of my time shagging and drinking instead of reading medieval literature," he wrote for The Tab in 2015.
In the years following he worked at the Daily Telegraph as a technology journalist and also founded the now-defunct online technology website The Kernel.
Yiannopoulos started his journey to international alt-right stardom after he was embroiled in Twitter scandal Gamergate, where he supported the vilification of women in the gaming industry.
He was banned from Twitter in 2016 for goading his followers into spamming one of the stars of Ghostbusters 3, Leslie Jones, who he described using transphobic and racist language.
Yiannopoulos has also been associated with neo-Nazis and white nationalists like Richard Spencer -- someone who has advocated for the creation of a white ethno-state in America.
Sad, really. He was Such an Excitable Boy [youtube.com].
