Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) has an account that seems loosely linked to Milo Yiannopoulos which is promoting an expected appearance in May by the controversial provocateur.
Twitter handle for Milo
The account is signed in under the handle @DANGEROUSFAGGOT and it appears to be from the ex-Breitbart editor who was banned from Twitter for life back in 2016.
The accounts biography section indicates, ”Feminism is Cancer. Will probably get banned unless I say I’m not Milo, so I’m not Milo. Even then I’ll probably still get banned.”
The account has a photo of Yiannopoulos, a banner which reads “5-5-17” the expected date of Milo’s comeback expedition and pinned tweet that links to a video uploaded on YouTube under the handle “yiannopoulosm”. Representatives from Twitter declined to make any comments related to the matter.
Details of the account
The account which boasts about 11,500 followers has 462 tweets. It was created in March 2017.
The account’s contents tweets mainly include conservative and sometimes offensive tweets which are linked to the alt-right movement. One tweet indicates that because Islamic terror attacks are not in any way related to Islam, when they acclaim “Allahu Akbar” it actually means “Trump made me do it”.
What led to the ban?
Yiannopoulos was banned from the Twitter platform in July 2016 after a series of violations of the social media site’s terms of service. The rules pertained specifically to targeted abuse of individual users. Before he got banned, he had been suspended twice from Twitter.
The official ban from the social media platform arrived after Yiannopoulos tweeted messages that were classified as sexist and racist and were targeted at Leslie Jones, the Saturday Night Live comedian. The tweets finally galvanized his followers to tweet back scathing messages for Leslie resulting in her briefly leaving Twitter.
Jones had tweeted back stating that she felt like she is in a personal hell yet she deserved none of it. After the ban, Twitter commented in a statement that people should be in a position to express different beliefs and opinions on the platform but no one should be subjected to online abuse. It added that their terms of use prohibited incitations or engaging in targeted harassment of others.
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