Milo Yiannopoulos received a $250,000 advance for his memoir called Dangerous by Simon & Schuster, but was unceremoniously dumped after his comments surfaced that seemed to condone pedophilia. In the interview, he suggested the age of consent wasn’t a “black and white thing” and that sexual relationships “between younger boys and older men … can be hugely positive experience.” He later clarified that he found pedophilia “absolutely disgusting” and said, “In most cases – you guys know – if I say something outrageous or offensive, in most cases my only regret is that I didn’t piss off more people, but in this case if I could do it again I wouldn’t phrase things the same way. Because it’s led to confusion.”

And then, people started distancing themselves from Milo. First, he was disinvited from CPAC, then he lost his book deal. “They canceled my book,” he wrote on Facebook. “I’ve gone through worse. This will not defeat me.” Now, Yiannopoulos has announced that he plans on self-publishing his book and suing Simon & Schuster for  $10m for dumping him. 

The memoir will be the first book to be published under his own Dangerous Books label, which will specialise in titles by authors who “can’t get published”. The venture was revealed as part of Milo Inc, a new media venture announced by Yiannopoulos…

Speaking in a YouTube livecast last week, he said: “I want to send them a message that they can never again do this to a libertarian or a conservative.”

Yiannopoulos, who in 2016 was permanently banned from Twitter, has been a controversial character in an era of controversial characters.  

A source close to the provocateur said that “Simon & Schuster has more leftist rules than Facebook and censored his book to hell, but Dangerous Books is a free-speech platform.”

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