Right-wing advocate Milo Yiannopoulos has book deal cancelled after paedophilia comments

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&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Milo Yiannopoulos has received a huge amount of backlash following some past comments he made about relationships between boys and men&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>First&comma; the Breitbart editor was uninvited to this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference &lpar;CPAC&rpar;&comma; and now Simon &&num;038&semi; Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint announced that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;after careful consideration” they had pulled his planned book &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dangerous&comma;” which had been high on Amazon&period;com’s best-seller lists and was the subject of intense controversy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Here is the interview in which Yiannopoulos made the comments&period; He has said remarks he made that could be interpreted as condoning men and boys having sex were edited wrongly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"696" height&equals;"522" data-videoid&equals;"FiDVamIztfs" title&equals;"Milo Yiannopoulos Defends Pedophilia"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;FiDVamIztfs"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;FiDVamIztfs&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Milo Yiannopoulos Defends Pedophilia"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The conservative Reagan Battalion blog tweeted the video clips&comma; although it is unknown who edited them&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dangerous” was originally scheduled to come out in March&period; But Yiannopoulos had pushed back the release to June so he could write about the uprisings during his recent campus tour&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>More than 100 Simon &&num;038&semi; Schuster authors had objected to his book deal&comma; which was announced last December&comma; and Roxane Gay withdrew a planned book&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a tweet&comma; the chairman of the American Conservative Union &lpar;which hosts CPAC&rpar; Matt Schlapp said that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;due to the revelation of an offensive video in the past 24 hours condoning paedophilia&comma; the American Conservative Union has decided to rescind the invitation of Milo Yiannopoulos to speak&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;IMG&lowbar;0960&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;IMG&lowbar;0960-1024x966&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"604" class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-107542" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Facebook&comma; Yiannopoulos defended himself against the deceptive editing&period; He says the only thing he is guilty of is imprecise language &lpar;using the word &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;boy” meaning a young man of a consenting age&rpar;&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He posts&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I would like to restate my utter disgust at adults who sexually abuse minors&period; I am horrified by paedophilia and I have devoted large portions of my career as a journalist to exposing child abusers&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;His book deal getting pulled hasn’t seemed to phase Yiannopoulos too much&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;IMG&lowbar;0959&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;IMG&lowbar;0959-1024x274&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"171" class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-107541" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2c5844730">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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