re: #25 goddamnedfrank

Much of the discussion about the banning has turned into a free speech/Big Brother debate, because CCJ and his followers have steered it in that direction. Newcomers to the Chuck Johnson saga don’t know his MO or the background to the “taking out” DeRay remark, so to them the argument seems valid. Even Milo, who was already sympathetic to CCJ, has bought into the free speech/Big Brother angle, chastising Twitter for having a double standard of banning Johnson “for one tweet” while letting others tweet stuff about killing George Zimmerman. It wasn’t just that one tweet by Johnson, of course. It was the latest in a pattern of abuse and near-abuse of the platform.

Milo does not challenge CCJ on the multiple sockpuppets accounts, which are a clear violation of Twitter’s TOS. I bet Amanda Hess skips over it too.