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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by holler on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:12PM (#19812280)
is there evidence that Yiannopolus associated himself with white supremacists? because every piece of material I’ve seen has been about free-speech and social-justice, often questioning the said association created by media
Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by xyz0 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:18PM (#19812361)
"Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream" (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-h...)

Here's one of many relevant excerpts:

> These new emails and documents, however, clearly show that Breitbart does more than tolerate the most hate-filled, racist voices of the alt-right. It thrives on them, fueling and being fueled by some of the most toxic beliefs on the political spectrum — and clearing the way for them to enter the American mainstream.

> It’s a relationship illustrated most starkly by a previously unreleased April 2016 video in which Yiannopoulos sings “America the Beautiful” in a Dallas karaoke bar as admirers, including the white nationalist Richard Spencer, raise their arms in Nazi salutes.

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by shehryarrr on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:59PM (#19812858)
Buzzfeed and Buzzfeed News are very different. Your dismissal is pretty ignorant.
Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by whenchamenia on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:52PM (#19814183)
They seem to be converging in quality, based on sloppy biased recent articles and sensationalized headlines from the latter.

I think not differentiating the branding better was a mistake, considering buzzfeed is synonymous with clickbait.

Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by shaki-dora on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:50PM (#19812738)
So someone asks for a nexus between Milo and white supremacists, and someone linking a source with a video of him serenading neo-nazis with their arms stretched out gets voted down?

The it’s-about-free-speech-not-alt-right-sympathy shtick really needs some update...

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by dang on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:45PM (#19815072)
Would you please not break the site guidelines by taking HN threads further into ideological flamewar? It's predictable, therefore tedious, therefore off-topic on this site.

Even if other comments are already going there, going there worse is not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by SEJeff on Thursday May 02, 2019 @06:35PM (#19813630)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Violence_aga...

Free Speech has limits (see Schenk vs United States)

Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by dragonwriter on Thursday May 02, 2019 @06:44PM (#19813685)
Free speech has limits, but given Schenk was overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio (and arguably by earlier cases, effectively), is an odd case to cite to support that position and explain the actual limits.
Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by microtherion on Thursday May 02, 2019 @05:49PM (#19813318)
Assuming that "Singing Karaoke while Richard Spencer & co throw up Nazi salutes" qualifies as "associating with white supremacists": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLNLPIRS62g