“I’ve been pretty mean through the years on Twitter,” he readily admitted. “But I don’t think that’s a reason to excise somebody from the platform. Actually, plenty of people enjoy what I do. Over 380,000 of them, as you say, enjoy what I do.”
Yiannopoulos denied that he had ever racially or sexually harassed Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones, and denounced some of the “completely disgusting” tweets that came from his fans. “What I did is dislike her movie, and after that teased her on Twitter,” he said. “If a journalist can’t tease a Hollywood blockbuster actress, I don’t know what this platform is about.”
“[Twitter CEO] Jack Dorsey says it’s ‘the free speech platform of the free speech wing of the free speech party….’ that Twitter is a place you go if you want to express yourself. That&
“Twitter is perfectly happy to host ISIS, to host death threats against Donald Trump supporters, and they do nothing in these cases,” he said. “But you make a joke about a feminist, or you make a joke about a new Ghostbusters movie, or if you have the audacity to dislike the work in Hollywood of somebody who happens to be black or happens to be a woman, then you get suspended? That’s absurd.”
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