British online celeb Milo ‘Nero’ Yiannopoulos given Twitter life ban after calling Ghostbusters actress a ‘black dude’
Social media shock jock unrepentant after publishing controversial Leslie Jones comments
The British right wing firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos has been slapped with a Twitter life ban after calling Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones a "black dude".
Milo, who uses the name Nero on social media, is an openly gay Oxbridge dropout who is now a major media star in America after using the social network to become the voice of a growing anti-feminist, "alt-right" movement.
But he is now banned from the microblogging site after becoming entangled in a vicious dispute with Leslie Jones.
The actress closed her Twitter last night after receiving a barrage of hateful and racist tweets.
Some bullies compared her to Harambe the Gorilla, who was shot dead after a young boy fell into her enclosure.
Milo published a scathing review of the new female-led Ghostbusters and then used Twitter to accuse her of "playing the victim", before telling his 338,000 Twitter followers he had been "rejected by a black dude" when she blocked him.
But the self-described "super villain" has made a lot of enemies along the path to fame.