[_cpancake]

Twitter's rules say they can remove your verified status at any time for violating their ToS. It's pretty obvious that Milo has violated their ToS many, many times, so he's not verified anymore. Don't know what the big deal about that is.

[nailer]

If he has - and I think he has based on one particular tweet where he said someone 'deserved to be harassed' - then he should be banned or suspended. Not 'unverified'. Not given a link to the ToS without at least one specific incident.

Conversely, the person whose previously doxxed him - also violating the Twitter ToS - should be punished too.

Twitter just need to have a concrete set of rules (objective not subjective) and enforce it consistently regardless of politics or celebrity status.

[hsod]

> based on one particular tweet where he said someone 'deserved to be harassed'

Apparently that tweet was a joke to a friend (another conservative commentator).

Which just illustrates the problem: it's really really hard to regulate speech fairly

[sib]

I would say that the big deal is, if that is the policy, then verification does not represent "verification" so much as "you play by the rules"... As has been said elsewhere, just because Milo violated some policies, he didn't stop being Milo.

[talmand]

I play by the rules and I haven't been verified.

[Nadya]

I don't agree with everything Milo spouts - but I don't dislike the guy, if only for his honesty (wears his biases openly on his sleeve) and doesn't-give-a-shit attitude.

If he broke their TOS he should be banned. Verification is saying "This person is the person they claim to be." Removing the verification is stupid and petty. Milo didn't stop being Milo.

[protomyth]

"Don't know what the big deal about that is."

Verified was originally sold as twitter saying the account belonged to a verified person or business. We could trust it was that person or organization and not some fake account.

This isn't true anymore and they should rename it to something else. The other part is that their are apparently some advertising requirements associated with verified for businesses.

[13thLetter]

It's a big deal once you can easily predict who is punished for ToS violations, and who gets to skate, by checking to see who has the right political views and/or friends at Twitter.