Milo Yiannopoulos

Milo Yiannopoulos
Yiannopoulos in 2013
Born	Milo Hanrahan (1984-10-18) 18 October 1984 (age 32) Kent, England
Nationality	British
Other names	Milo Andreas Wagner
Occupation	Journalist, author
Years active	2007–present
Website	yiannopoulos.net
Writing career
Pen name	Milo Andreas Wagner (2007)

Milo Yiannopoulos (/jəˈnɒpᵿləs/; born Milo Hanrahan; 18 October 1984) is a British public speaker, media personality, and former senior editor for Breitbart News. He has written under the pen name Milo Andreas Wagner. A noted provocateur, he became a target of the No Platform movement banning controversial speakers from college and university campuses.

Yiannopoulos co-founded The Kernel in 2011, an online tabloid magazine about technology, which he sold to Daily Dot Media in 2014. As a self-proclaimed "cultural libertarian" and "free speech fundamentalist", he is a vocal critic of feminism, Islam, social justice, political correctness, and other movements and ideologies he deems authoritarian or belonging to the "regressive left." Yiannopoulos considers himself a reporter of and "occasional fellow traveller" with the alt-right movement.

In July 2016, he was permanently banned from Twitter for what the company cited as "inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others." In February 2017 he resigned from Breitbart after a controversy arising from a video clip in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adult men and women can be "perfectly consensual" and can be positive experiences for the boys. On March 10th, an additional videotape emerged in which Yiannopoulos said that child sexual abuse is “really is not that big of a deal,” and deprecated victims of child sexual abuse, whom he called “whinging selfish brats,” for publicly identifying their abusers.