I don't mind that Milo mocked the movie or actress. But he also retweeted (noticeably) faked tweets that purported to show her using extremely anti-gay epithets, the kind of thing that turns a flamewar into a full-blown digital witch burning.
If someone posted to HN a viral news article that used obviously faked tweets to show that Elon Musk is an admirer of Hitler, no one would be surprised if that account (and the article's site domain) ended up permabanned from HN.
If someone posted to HN a viral news article that used obviously faked tweets to show that Elon Musk is an admirer of Hitler, no one would be surprised if that account (and the article's site domain) ended up permabanned from HN.