Vanity Fair: “Milo Yiannopoulos’s Fyre-Festival Free Speech Week Is Canceled, Says Everyone but Milo”

They’re pinning this on Milo when this is an abject failure of UC-Berkeley. They’re blaming Milo for their failure and their cowardice. The free speech movement of 1964 was a revolt, and it heralded the most serious attack on academic freedom in American history. We are witnessing the poison fruit of that now.

“Milo Yiannopoulos’s Fyre-Festival Free Speech Week Is Canceled, Says Everyone but Milo,” by Tina Nguyen, Vanity Fair, September 22, 2017:

Milo Yiannopoulos’s grandiose promises of a Free Speech Week at U.C. Berkeley, the campus where his last visit ended in riots and destruction, supposedly involving right-wing media heavyweights like Steve Bannon and Ann Coulter, has been falling apart spectacularly over the past few weeks. High-profile speakers either mysteriously disappeared from the lineup, or publicly stated that they had never been invited in the first place. Berkeley and Yiannopoulos’s new media company, Milo Inc., got in public spats over whether paperwork had been filled out in time. And even the event’s participants were left in the dark over simple logistical issues, such as where they were staying or when they were getting there.

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The Fyre Festival–esque confusion deepened on Friday, when members of the Berkeley Patriot told KQED that Free Speech Week was canceled, confirming numerous suspicions among the far right that the event was too disorganized to continue….

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