Milo Yiannopoulos
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Milo Yiannopoulosmight be the best example of why deplatforming is an effective strategy. Yiannopoulos found fame and riches as part of the first wave of “alt-right” (i.e. hateful racist) influencers in the mid-2010s. Just at the moment when he seemed poised to cross over into the mainstream, his career fell apart in a spectacular flurry when it surfaced that he had seemingly promoted pedophilia on a podcast. He was subsequently fired from Breitbart, uninvited from the Conservative Political Action Conference, and had a book deal canceled.
At that point, he had already been banned from Twitter for directing a racist hate campaign against Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones. Eventually, he’d be removed from most other social media platforms, too. With nowhere to promote his bad ideas, the “provocateur” could no longer provoke anyone, and by 2018, he had reportedly amassed millions of dollars in debt.
