THIS WEEK'S QUESTION: Conservative commentator, Milo Yiannopoulos got banned permanently from Twitter recently for targeting Ghostbusters actress, Leslie Jones, to online harassment and abuse. The question this week is: IS IT GOOD TO BAN PEOPLE WHO HARASS OTEHRS OR IS IT A VIOLATION OF FREE SPEECH? BANNING IS SOMETIMES NECESSARY or VIOLATION OF FREE SPEECH?

I'm joined by the Dating Advice Girl, Erin Tillman this week. She's a dating expert and radio show host on 99.3 KCLA FM, voted one of the 10 best dating shows in 2013. Erin was banned from Tinder a while back, and we get a surprising concession during this episode.

Also, satirist Rucka Rucka Ali is back dropping wisdom and terrorizing the studio with a false-shirt operation. A caller noticed the resemblance between Rucka and the character Scooter from Borderlands.

We discuss the Twitter ban of Milo Yiannopoulos for harassing Leslie Jones on Twitter. Was it a fair ban? Does it matter when it comes to a private corporation? Or is the alt-right's outrage to this a little too alt-righteous? After all, isn't part of the complaint against the tumblr generation is that they're offended too easily and too often? Why all the outrage? Or is the outrage justified because we don't know if Twitter was self-consistent with their own policies, as there was no transparent arbitration process and no clear reason for the exact violation that triggered his banning. We have a spirited debate about free speech and the implications of this ban.

And speaking of free speech, some Starbucks baristas are refusing to write #BlackLivesMatter on their cups when customers request it, in order to not take a stand on racial issues... coming from a company that had the "Race Together" campaign last year, which encouraged its customers to have a "conversation about race" in its stores. I think all the typical Starbucks customer only cares about #BlackCoffeeMatters. Boom.

Plus, I received about a billion "corrections" about the evolution of Koffing into Haunter.

The voicemail number is: 1-562-58-I-RULE (1-562-584-7853).

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Sources:

NPR - Twitter Permanently Suspends Conservative Writer For Targeted Abuse - http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/20/486726291/twitter-permanently-suspends-conservative-writer-for-targeted-abuse

Observer - Michael Malice's article about Twitter's Stalinist unpersoning of Milo Yiannopolous - http://observer.com/2016/07/twitters-stalinist-unpersoning-of-gay-provocatuer-milo-yiannopolous/

Quartz - Firing Roger Ailes and exiling Milo isn't going to fix much of anything - http://qz.com/739364/firing-roger-ailes-and-exiling-milo-yiannopoulos-isnt-going-to-fix-much-of-anything/

Independent.co.uk - Suspending Milo's account has played the man rather than the ball (supplementary reading) - http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/in-suspending-milo-yiannopoulos-account-twitter-has-played-the-man-rather-than-the-ball-a7146901.html

India Times - Wikileaks threatens Twitter to start its own micro-blogging service - http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/wikileaks-threatens-twitter-to-start-own-micro-blogging-service/articleshow/53332257.cms

Mic - Starbucks barista refuses to write #BlackLivesMatter on woman's cup - https://mic.com/articles/148633/starbucks-barista-refuses-to-write-black-lives-matter-on-woman-s-coffee-cup#.iOAss9Mcv

Daily Caller - Teacher who had threesome with student responds to lawsuit - http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/23/teacher-who-traumatized-male-teen-during-9-hour-threesome-responds-to-lawsuit-with-sick-allegations/

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