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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
January 26, 2016
Responding to the massive Twitter exec-walkout, Milo Yiannopoulos viewed these troubles in light of his own persecution by the company in a tweet rant, saying that “Twitter is dying because instead of creating a great product it became a liberal attack vector.”
I think that may in some ways be an overstatement; Twitter is presumably dying mainly due to decreasing technological relevance. The company was looking bad and firing workers well before this incident with Milo. Their plan to shut down free speech is simply going to accelerate a collapse which was already inevitable due to the speed at which the modern tech landscape changes.
Here is his entire series of tweets on the issue.
1/ Obviously, I can't take full credit for the drama at Twitter. But I can tell you a few things that might interest you.
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) January 25, 2016
2/ I now know from multiple sources that institutional investors were watching my case closely to see what Twitter did about their mistake.
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) January 25, 2016
3/ When a company is in trouble, investors watch very closely to see whether management fixes or doubles down on slip-ups.
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) January 25, 2016
4/ What Twitter did to me hits on three things that investors care about. One, transparency over product and policy. Twitter has none.
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) January 25, 2016
5/ Two, keeping power users engaged and happy. As a rising star I'm exactly the sort of person Twitter should be embracing, not punishing.
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) January 25, 2016
6/ Three, user growth. I have brought Twitter thousands of new users — people who came to Twitter only to follow me.
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) January 25, 2016
7/ So my case is the emblematic of all three of Twitter's biggest problems, and came at just the right time. So: massive press attention.
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) January 25, 2016
8/ #JeSuisMilo will therefore come to be seen as the tipping point. After #JeSuisMilo, stock dropped more precipitously than before.
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) January 25, 2016
9/ And now, today, mass exec walkouts. Twitter is dying because instead of creating a great product it became a liberal attack vector.
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) January 25, 2016
10/ Twitter's fate could have been avoided. In this case, free speech isn't just good ethics — it's good business.
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) January 25, 2016
11/ Oh, and one last thing. They shouldn't have underestimated my reach, connections, resources and fans. Silly Twitter.
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) January 25, 2016
Even while I don’t fully agree that Twitter could survive if it refused to be PC, I would assume he is correct in asserting that investors were paying attention to his situation, and saw how horribly Twitter handled it.
Investors are also seeing the massive campaigns against Twitter for continuing to allow free speech, and seeing that the Jewish media apparatus is siding with these campaigners.
When I wrote about the situation when it happened, I said that there is no worse way they could have initiated this shut down of free speech. It would make much more sense to have targeted anonymous Nazi accounts that no one but another Nazis would miss to begin with, and then slowly begin to rein-in the larger profile accounts as a climate of no free speech intensified.
Whatever the case, it is clear that all big tech companies have now accepted mandate to shut down free speech, and this is going to intensify, no matter how much it ends up costing companies.
This may indeed lead to an emergence of new companies oriented around freedom.
