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Milo Yiannopoulos: Rise, Deplatforming, and the Billionaire Puppet Masters
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6 min
A long history of Milo Yiannopoulos — his Breitbart/Mercer family backing, Gamergate rise, Berkeley riot, Leslie Jones controversy, deplatforming, the pedophilia-adjacent comment controversy, and his attempted comeback as a comedian/Johnny Carson-type figure — framed around how billionaire donors like the Mercers and Kochs cast political spokespeople the way Hollywood casts actors.
- Tim would take a Masterclass deal for just a few hundred dollars a month to teach people whatever they want.
- He's not claiming to be a saint — if the money showed up, he'd dance his ass in a YouTube room and sell whatever garbage they wanted.
- Milo Yiannopoulos was a provocateur and Breitbart tech writer backed financially by billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter from Long Island.
- Tim compares the Mercer backing of Breitbart to how the Koch family funds Shapiro and The Daily Wire, and Soros does the same on the left.
- Milo rose to prominence from Gamergate, pushing back against the PC gaming community wanting more women in games.
- Famous Berkeley protest against Milo resulted in over $100,000 worth of damage.
- Milo got deplatformed from Twitter allegedly for organizing fans to attack Leslie Jones, though Tim questions whether this actually happened.
- Tim argues a smart person who can actually debate would find someone like Milo relatively easy to defuse.
- Donald Trump also should have been easy to beat but wasn't, partly because people kept fighting him on his terms instead of just asking about his policies.
- Milo got deplatformed off Twitter, Patreon, and Facebook, though not as completely as what happened to Gavin McInnis, who was essentially unpersoned from all social media.
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