Milo Yiannopoulos: Twitter banning one man won’t undo his poisonous legacy

Banning the 'alt-right' agitator from Twitter is not constructive; it stands to further wind up people who respond to humiliation by becoming dangerous

Ding dong, the witch is dead. In the wake of news earlier today that Twitter had finally banned "alt-right" agitator Milo Yiannopoulos from its platform, a chorus of virtual cheers has gone up, a powerful sense of satisfaction.

The Breitbart writer, who previously appointed himself a star of the digital trash fire known as "Gamergate", has been a peddler of inarguable hate speech. Beyond just speech, though, he's cannily built smear campaigns that incited his followers to dogpile other users, usually women and people of color, until the targets could no longer use social media constructively.