{"id":31426,"date":"2017-02-21T12:52:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/julian-assange-defends-milo-yiannopoulos-as-breitbart-mulls-dismissal-towleroad.php"},"modified":"2017-02-21T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:52:35","slug":"julian-assange-defends-milo-yiannopoulos-as-breitbart-mulls-dismissal-towleroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/julian-assange-2\/julian-assange-defends-milo-yiannopoulos-as-breitbart-mulls-dismissal-towleroad.php","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange Defends Milo Yiannopoulos as Breitbart Mulls Dismissal &#8211; Towleroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Julian Assange, still holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in    London while avoiding extradition to Sweden on rape charges,    defended man-boy love enthusiast Milo Yiannopoulos on Monday    night.  <\/p>\n<p>    Yiannopoulos was disinvited to CPAC and dropped by Simon &    Schuster over the weekend after remarks surfaced in which he said he was    comfortable with men having sex with boys as young as 13.  <\/p>\n<p>    Tweeted Assange: US liberals today celebrate the censorship    of right-wing UK provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos over teen sex    quote.  <\/p>\n<p>      US 'liberals' today celebrate the censorship of right-wing UK      provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos over teen sex quote.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bz6dH0jyhk\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/bz6dH0jyhk<\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>       Julian Assange (@JulianAssange)       February 21, 2017    <\/p>\n<p>    He added: Issue is liberals cheering on a clearly illiberal    act  book censorship  for political reasons with morality as    cover.  <\/p>\n<p>      .@nycjaneyvee      Issue is 'liberals' cheering on a clearly illiberal act       book censorship  for political reasons with morality as      cover.    <\/p>\n<p>       Julian Assange (@JulianAssange)       February 21, 2017    <\/p>\n<p>    Yiannopoulos is holding a press conference at 3 pm today in New    York City.  <\/p>\n<p>      Breitbart EIC: \"Milo is going to have a press conference      later today and he is going to talk about his future with      Breitbart\"    <\/p>\n<p>       Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy)       February 21, 2017    <\/p>\n<p>    Meanwhile, Breitbart employees are reportedly threatening to    walk if Milo isnt fired:  <\/p>\n<p>      scoop: Breitbart senior editor tells me at least half a dozen      employees ready to walk out if Milo is not fired.       pic.twitter.com\/k5wZ3OGTlL    <\/p>\n<p>       Elaina Plott (@elainaplott)       February 20, 2017    <\/p>\n<p>    The Washington Post adds:  <\/p>\n<p>    By late Monday afternoon, there were ongoing discussions at    Breitbart about Yiannopouloss future at the company, according    to two people familiar with the organization who were not    authorized to speak. Inside the newsroom, several staffers made    clear to senior leadership that they felt uncomfortable and may    decide to leave if he stays, the people said.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2017\/02\/milo-breitbart\/\" title=\"Julian Assange Defends Milo Yiannopoulos as Breitbart Mulls Dismissal - Towleroad\">Julian Assange Defends Milo Yiannopoulos as Breitbart Mulls Dismissal - Towleroad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Julian Assange, still holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London while avoiding extradition to Sweden on rape charges, defended man-boy love enthusiast Milo Yiannopoulos on Monday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-julian-assange-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}