Twitter censorship: Twitter Permanently Suspends Conservative Writer Milo Yiannopoulos, by Charlie Warzel.
Yiannopoulos, who currently serves as Breitbart.com’s tech editor, has been hailed as a voice of the new “alt-right” movement. As such, he has made a living as a provocateur, continually inflaming tensions between progressive branches of the internet focused on identity politics and the fervently anti-PC segment that constantly trolls it. For years, Yiannopoulous has used Twitter not only to voice his controversial opinions, but to direct his legion of followers (388,042 at the time of this writing) toward his opponents. As a result, he’s been temporarily banned from Twitter a number of times for violating its terms of service and stripped of his verification.
He’s not the first prominent conservative banned from Twitter. Gays with Guns commented on Twitter that Twitter decided to throw the gay off the roof: