Julian Assange on CPAC Disinviting Milo Yiannopoulos: 'Liberals' Are Celebrating Censorship
Source: Mediaite
by Ken Meyer | 10:01 am, February 21st, 2017
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange decided to get in on Milo Yiannopoulos most recent controversy by denouncing the liberals who are happy that the Breitbart tech editor has been exiled from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Yiannopoulos was meant to give a speech at CPAC this week, but after a video surfaced of him apparently defending pedophilia, he was disinvited from the event. Yiannopoulos has stated that he is horrified by pedophilia, but the impact of the video cost him his book deal with publisher Simon & Schuster, and there are indications that Breitbart might be thinking about firing him.
Amidst the fallout from the news, Assange offered his comment last night:
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Assange also had this to say with regard to the fact that Yiannopoulos was disinvited from a right-wing event:
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Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/julian-assange-on-cpac-disinviting-milo-yiannopoulos-liberals-are-celebrating-censorship/
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)Just Fuck You.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I so hate that guy!
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)Assange is a Russian stooge and I hope he rots in the Ecuadorian embassy!
brush
(53,467 posts)Oh that's right, just a Russian tool.
Mc Mike
(9,106 posts)1965Comet
(175 posts)"Issue is 'liberals' cheering on a clearly illiberal act -- book censorship -- for political reasons with morality as cover."
Uhh, Simon and Schuster is a private book publisher, and thus can deny any book deal they want for pretty much any reason they want. Conservatives can boycott if they choose..
Assange should not get his underoos in a wad until the US govt. starts cancelling private publishing deals...
kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)potone
(1,701 posts)Deciding not to invite someone to speak or to publish a book is not censorship. It is only censorship if the government bans certain speech. Assange seems determined to destroy whatever credibility that he still has. He has never been an advocate for progressive values, and he has turned Wikileaks into a blatantly politically motivated organization.
Freedom of Speech does not mean other folks owe you a podium and a microphone to speak or must give you the last work on a subject without opposition.
apnu
(8,722 posts)Tarc
(10,472 posts)Shocker...
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)and either
A.) Russia (and Trump) will greelight a British entry into the Ecuadorian embassy or
B.) Assange will be permanently censored
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)If you have moral convictions, you stand up for them. That includes shunning people whose morals you consider bad.
Except that, according to Assange, political liberals are not allowed to shun anybody because that would be censorship.
According to Assange, political liberals are supposed to welcome all ideas (even ideas they find disgusting), because their political definition as liberals takes precedent over their moral convictions.
First he uses an extremist definition of "liberal" and then he lambasts the liberals for not fitting that defintion...
Blue Idaho
(4,987 posts)And he failed in the marketplace of ideas.
Aristus
(66,075 posts)Censorship is if the government put Yiannopolous in jail for what he said. CPAC is a private organization that made a private choice.
Nitram
(22,663 posts)I hope he gets kicked out of the Bolivian Embassy to face the music. I mean, what do liberals have to do with a CPAC decision?
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Therefore, he hasn't experienced our American problems. His opinion is bullshit.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)S&S (a private company) determined that releasing the book would damage their image, costing them money in the long term.
Sounds like the "marketplace of ideas" worked itself out here.
Go back up Putin's arsehole, Assange.
nycbos
(6,032 posts)I had to get a new user name.
He used to be a big hero here. Anyone who questions his motives were labeled as apologists for the surveillance state.
I for one knew this guy was bullshit ever since he was wanted for rape in Sweden and jumped bail. However many people here said the victims was making it up.
So when I see people on this board bashing him with a grain of salt.
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tammywammy
(26,582 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)JTFrog
(14,274 posts)There goes one now....
rogue emissary
(3,147 posts)I didn't know Simon & Schuster controlled the publication of all the books in the world. Damn, they aren't giving me money for an Idea I have for a book. Guess I've been censored by them as well.
Please fight for me, Julian!
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Assange's was the most overdue and the most predictable...
LiberalLovinLug
(14,153 posts)but beyond that....his only gripe is with liberals REACTION to an abhorrent statement by Milo and his subsequent dismissal.
We didn't storm the gates and behead Milo. He was defeated by his own sword. But we can't be at all happy about this turn of events?
Why not? What are we supposed to do? picket Breitbart to get him his job back? The one where he publicly shits all over Democrats and liberals, and the majority of his own gay community?
I used to defend Julian. He really is an intolerable ass. No acknowledgement or apology of how he was used by Putin to influence the election and install Trump. He is dead to me.
Phoenix61
(16,949 posts)can make you a little crazier than you were before cabin fever set in.
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)At first, I wasn't convinced he's a rapist. Now I am.
Gothmog
(143,998 posts)Assange is a rapist hiding from the law and is a russian tool
C_U_L8R
(44,889 posts)That's very much your own little circle-jerk.
Lanius
(599 posts)All that happened here is a political organization (not the government) rescinded his invitation to speak at its convention.
UT_democrat
(143 posts)that CPAC would have kept the pedo as a speaker. Then they can wear that scarlet letter for the rest of their short political lives.