A.J. Daulerio when he was asked on video by Hogan’s lawyer, “Can you imagine a situation where a celebrity sex tape would not be newsworthy?” Daulerio answered “If they were a child.” “Under what age?” attorney Charles Harder pressed. “Four,” he said. “No four-year-old sex tapes, OK,” Harder said.

That was some of the testimony given to a hearing into the actions of Gawker media as part of Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against them for leaking part of his own sex video.

When Gawker media was facing bankruptcy there was a well of support for Gawker and claims of how this was a blow for free speech or a blow for journalists ability to do their job. Which apparently now includes any aspect of peoples private lives they can get their hands on.

People (and I’ll be polite and not call people out for it here but you know damn well who you are) defended Gawker. People were happy to defend this company and those words at the start of this as part of the first amendment and Free speech.

Yet recently Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos was banned from twitter and those same people were cheering it of defending the decision. So what did he do that was so bad? Well see if you can find it.

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So Not exactly what he’s been accused of it seems as the accusation against Milo was he was some harbinger of mass hatred being wrought upon people. That he controlled some army of evil monsters and set them on people like some kind of Bond Villain. Yet as you can see here there’s little of that just a few disparaging remarks it’s not as though he asked people to go and attack Leslie Jones. I mean who would do a thing like that?

So the question is what does trying to incite harassment mean under Twitters ruling on this issue? What other things could count as “trying to set your fans on someone” to incite harassment.

How many of these would count?

Or how about when Movie Bob decided to take a @ conversation and start quote tweeting me to his followers?

Now here’s the thing I don’t want to see either of the two above banned despite often having disagreements with them on Twitter and Bob having previously said I wasn’t entitled to his attention.

So my stance towards Milo is I may not agree with him on everything either. Hell I bet I’d disagree with Milo more than I’d agree the thing is I don’t see any more reason for Milo to have been banned than any number of other people or even Leslie Jones Herself here.

@Jack in making this decision seemingly only did so to make a scapegoat out of Milo. Banning Milo has been nothing more than a symbolic gesture. What do I mean?

Well lets take a look at the actual Racist Tweets Leslie Jones received and in case you nee it spelling out. TRIGGER WARNING RACISM oh and Also I do NOT condone or agree with any of the sentiments expressed in them.

Well surely @elbmuhoreh was banned for that right? Well as of writing this No @Jack has done nothing and their account still exists have a look for your self

Surely this is just a one off though right Twitter totally acted in some of the other cases right?

Seems @evyarb9000 is still not banned as of writing this

@Depforce7 still on Twitter as of this piece being written

@FuggingBelb still on twitter as of writing this

@0ddsauce still on Twitter

I will give @Jack some credit. 2 accounts I checked did say it was suspended so well done out of 10 accounts checked 2 had been suspended. 5 shown above had faced nothing and 3 more I checked had changed their @ so I but their original @ that sent the abuse wasn’t banned.

So Twitter banned only 20% of those actually responsible for sending abuse even now days on from it. But they were quick to ban Milo. Quick to ban someone to appease people. Quick to make someone plenty of people likely to back Leslie Jones disliked.

All twitter did was ban Milo to placate people and stop them being angry. He was a scapegoat to stop To hide how twitter is taking no action.

I’m sure those who have read this and looked for themselves will happily be joining me in asking @Jack what the hell he thinks he’s playing at. For scapegoating and then hiding the trending hashtag as even people who may not be fans of Milo have seen as a disturbing move.

Also to the “journalists” who have celebrated Milo being banned or excused Twitters actions I have this to say. Suggesting private companies have no obligation to uphold civil liberties is a dangerous precedent to set. It means if some company refuses to cater a party because they wouldn’t cater a gay wedding . Well you just told them it’s ok to discriminate like that. You just told them it’s ok because peoples civil liberties don’t matter in private companies. Or how about when Pharmacies refuse to give or even stock or sell birth control to people? Well you just told said places its well within their rights because they don’t have to respect peoples rights as that only applies between the government and people.

So to the media and commentators presently wringing their hands trying to justify Milo being banned. Think long and hard. If you defended Gawker and their claims it’s free speech to publish sex videos of 5 year olds but decided to condemn mild criticism from a conservative journalist as worthy of a ban. I’d say you might want to think of what kind of future you’re making by arguing that sex videos of children have more right to be posted online than Milo has a right to be even slightly critical of people on Twitter.

What kind of precedent are you also setting in regards to corporations and how they believe they can act towards people.

One final thing to @Jack and Twitter as a company. There are others starting to come up alternatives to Twitter. Do you really want to test peoples resolve, I seem to remember another company called Myspace seeing other start ups as no threat, and they didn’t manage to suggest a people with certain views weren’t welcome. They weren’t trying to make symbolic gestures to hide their lack of action against the actual people sending abuse.

So will you address #Freemilo or does #jesuisMilo need to have a second run and you can play whack a hashtag for as long as people want to keep this going? Or am I going to be the next one banned in the hopes to keep this quiet