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Milo Yiannopoulos Wants To Buy 4Chan, Promises Free Speech Haven (hollywoodreporter.com)
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Milo Yiannopoulos, an alt-right hero known for his banishment from Twitter, is preparing a bid to acquire his own social media firm: 4chan... The Hollywood Reporter learned that Yiannopoulos, with the help of a wealthy backer, is preparing to approach 4chan owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, a Japanese entrepreneur, with a bid this week. Contacted Saturday, Yiannopoulos confirmed plans for a possible acquisition but did not offer details.
"As a free-speech fundamentalist and a student of Internet culture, I appreciate how fragile and precious the 4chan ecosystem is and how much it gives to the wider Internet -- even if some corners of it, such as /pol/, don't always approve of me very much," Yiannopoulos said... "I spoke to my lawyer this morning about purchasing the business... I intend to approach the current owners in the next few days with an offer."
Yiannopoulos added this his philosophy as an owner "would be very simple: free-speech central, no ifs, no buts."
"As a free-speech fundamentalist and a student of Internet culture, I appreciate how fragile and precious the 4chan ecosystem is and how much it gives to the wider Internet -- even if some corners of it, such as /pol/, don't always approve of me very much," Yiannopoulos said... "I spoke to my lawyer this morning about purchasing the business... I intend to approach the current owners in the next few days with an offer."
Yiannopoulos added this his philosophy as an owner "would be very simple: free-speech central, no ifs, no buts."
sad that so called social media as they expand try to restrict speech to what is acceptable in a drawing room of bourgeois white women, and internet has to depend on a self described faggot troll to consciously create a truly free speech haven.
I'm not actually sure who I want in charge of the place less, him or Martin Shkreli.
Hey if they both bought it maybe it could bankrupt both of the bottom feeding fuckers
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And when you say "freedom of speech" you mean the freedom to be a white supremacist neo-nazi hate monger. Sure, this is America, and we have the First Amendment and all, but let's not pretend he's doing/being something noble.
you mean the freedom to be a white supremacist neo-nazi hate monger
Sure, and also the freedom to be a lying leftard knee-jerk SJW. They go hand in hand, and fuck you for sniveling about it.
There's a reason why the ACLU defended the Nazis in first amendment cases. Educate yourself.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Keep in mind that even moot, the founder of 4chan and a guy renowned for his protection of free speech, had to ban all the GamerGate harassment. It's not that he particularly wanted to, it's that legally he had to or no-one would want to host or advertise on his website. In other words, it wouldn't be able to pay for itself. Plus, he would be dealing with a lot of log requests from law enforcement.
8chan only manages to ignore harassment and child porn because it's small and doesn't cost much to run. So depending on your personal definition of "SJW", you might find that Milo is one of them when he is forced to delete threads and wield the banhammer.
I also wonder where Milo would find the time for 4chan, considering he works for Breitbart and tours and is supposed to be running that college scholarship fund that is already behind schedule.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
"when you say "freedom of speech" you mean the freedom to be a white supremacist neo-nazi hate monger."
Definitely! Or maybe freedom to be advocating a homosexual lifestyle, or freedom to be a pornography spreading filth monger, or freedom to instruct people about making bombs or cooking meth.
Yes, in the USA there is a First Amendment, but that only provides a little protection against government censorship. It does nothing to restrain the militant, hate-filled SJWs from using every tactic imaginable, including brute force, to stifle speech that they don't like.
Creating a forum for unpopular opinions and controversial material is an entirely noble enterprise
Yiannopoulos added this his philosophy as an owner "would be very simple: free-speech central, no ifs, no buts."
Let me know how that goes for you 5 seconds in when somebody posts child porn or makes a credible threat of violence.
Problem is he's not good at running stuff. Look at the Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant. He hasn't even got around to filing the paperwork to set it up as a charity, it hasn't paid out anything and its bursary manager said it was "mismanaged". He blamed a busy schedule for this, and now wants to add the extra overhead of owning 4chan.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I know, right? The 21st century is all about properly censored and curated 'safe spaces.' WTF is he thinking?
Yeah. A site that was started in 2003 is 20th century, moron.
That in and of itself isn't hypocritical unless they try to force him to stand. You're allowed to criticize other people's speech, but trying to prevent them from speaking at all is different (and worse). Yes, the NFL and colleges are (mostly) private property, they can decline to host events or give a platform, etc. but one of the major reasons for going to college is to be exposed to new ideas and learn how to think better. You can't do that if you refuse to listen to any points of view besides your own.
Examine even your most deeply held beliefs. Nobody is always right.
The one demanding to be heard are the social justice cancer. They are the one claiming all platforms, "reclaiming" internet that they never owned or created, so them and only them can speak. They are the one specifically excluding peoples base on race (White) and gender (male). And they get hated for it. What did they expect? A Nobel prize? (LOL the Nobel comity is so stupid it might actually happen)
Shitposting is criticizing them. Shitposting is yelling at them. Shitposting is boycotting them. Shitposting is showing them the door.
Shitposting is EXACTLY what the XKCD comic you linked is defending. Shitposting is free speech.
"gay uncle tom"? What a first class tool you are. Since you - for some reason - seem to think that a person's ideology descends from their biology, you are the bigot in this equation. He's just gay. Just because he doesn't agree with you politically doesn't make him a traitor to anyone, especially the likes of you. It's funny how you lefties always seem to find the limits of your tolerance at the edges of your dogma.
The ISP level is where the no-platforming line should be drawn, so long as ISPs are government-granted monopolies. There is no barrier to choice in social media platforms or web hosts, but most people in most municipalities have one or at most two choices of ISP, so they must be required to be common carriers and not discriminate based on content.
If there comes a day when anyone can connect to any... I dunno, wireless patch network or something like that... and there's no barrier to choice in ISPs either, then the ISPs are free to no-platform you too.
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