How Milo Yiannopoulos's Berkeley 'Free Speech Week' Fell Apart

At first, conservative agitator Milo Yiannopoulos’s Free Speech Week in Berkeley, California, seemed like it might be a major event. Four straight days of provocative events on campus featuring right-wing luminaries, culminating with appearances by conservative writer Ann Coulter and former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and all in the heart of one of the most symbolically resonant places Yiannopoulos could have chosen: the campus of University of California, Berkeley, a campus with a longstanding image as a hotbed of left-wing activism where protests shut down an event of his last year.

But things didn’t go according to plan.

The Milo Yiannopoulos Debacle Tells Us Some Terrible Truths About the Right

Roughly 48 hours after outrage erupted over his comments in defense of “cross-generational” relationships between “younger boys and older men,” Milo Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart News. On Tuesday afternoon, New York Times writer Michael M. Grynbaum tweeted a statement from Yiannopoulos announcing that he is “resigning from Breitbart, effective immediately.” Perhaps to quell rumblings that the right-wing provocateur was pressured to step down—including rumors that multiple Breitbart staffers planned to quit if he did not—Yiannopoulos noted, “This decision is mine alone.”

I’m Bored Of Being Told Bigots Should Be Debated

I’m so bored of being told bigots and those that put people’s lives at risk should be defeated in open debate. It’s not true, and it’s not necessary. I’m quite happy to prioritise people’s safety over someone spouting ill-informed, hate-filled ‘alternative facts’. We seem sold on the whole idea that freedom of speech means we are obliged to amplify hate and give bigots a platform. We don’t owe bigots a platform. You are right, they’re free to say what they want but giving them a platform to the detriment and regression of others is irresponsible.

Nothing Seemed To Stop Milo Yiannopoulos — Until This

A platform of hatred. A plethora of racist, misogynistic and transphobic remarks. But through it all, many stood by far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos, often defending his right to free speech.

Over the weekend, however, the Breitbart editor finally crossed what may have seemed a non-existent line, sending the American Conservative Union, publishing house Simon & Schuster and others who once supported him running.

All Hell Breaks Loose at Campus Event for Alt-Right Leader Milo Yiannopoulos

A planned talk at the University of California-Berkeley by alt-right lightning rod Milo Yiannopoulos has been canceled after protests erupted on campus.

Yiannopoulos is an editor at Breitbart, a far-right online publication, and is a self-professed "mouthpiece of Trump-Pence." He is in the middle of a campus speaking tour that has attracted intense ire from student groups around the country. Similar protests broke out last month at the University of California-Davis, shutting down his appearance there, and at the University of Washington, where a protester was shot.

We live in a world where white supremacists get lucrative book deals

Breitbart technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos signed a $250,000 book deal with Threshold Editions, an imprint of publishing house Simon & Schuster, the Hollywood Reporter announced on Thursday. People are not pleased.

The book deal gives Yiannopoulos a new platform to amplify his hateful rhetoric and contribute to misogyny and white supremacy. Yiannopoulos rose to prominence as an editor at Breitbart, which former Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro called “the alt-right go-to website… pushing white ethno-nationalism as a legitimate response to political correctness, and the comment section turning into a cesspool for white supremacist mememakers.”