Whoa.
Buzzfeed reports that Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos has been “permanently banned” by Twitter over a series of tweets directed at “Ghostbusters” actress Leslie Jones:
BREAKING: Twitter has permanently banned Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos (@nero) for repeated violations: https://t.co/ZTgSJpVeaD
— Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) July 20, 2016
Tweeters had been sending Jones pictures comparing her to a gorilla, which eventually led to a back-and-forth with Yiannopoulos, which then led to more hate.
@Nero I'm hearing this guy is a columnist how sad. Is this how he gets his readers thru supporting hate? I'm acting like a victim? Nice job
— Leslie Jones ? (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
@Nero you can say what you want about my work but when you support hate, that's not right. Wonder do your readers know you support hate!!
— Leslie Jones ? (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
@Nero pretty that you support racist sending me pics of gorillas. Is that how you get your readers thru hate? You're cool with harassment?
— Leslie Jones ? (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
It seems one of the tweets that set off the outrage was a doctored tweet calling Yiannopoulos an “uncleTom fag” (doctored version on top, Jones’ response on the bottom):
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THIS WAS NOT ME!! OK TWITTER IM DONE!! IF YALL CAN LET THIS SHIT HAPPEN I DONT WANT TO BE HERE. I DID NOT POST THIS pic.twitter.com/CDGbuOHJN4
— Leslie Jones ? (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
The writing was on the wall when Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey got involved:
Hi Leslie, following, please DM me when you have a moment
— jack ??? (@jack) July 19, 2016
With the end result being Jones giving up on Twitter:
I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart.All this cause I did a movie.You can hate the movie but the shit I got today…wrong
— Leslie Jones ? (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
And we’ll obviously be hearing much, much more about this:
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/755588993178304512
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/755588287100837888
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