Alt-right blogger Milo Yiannopoulos banned from speaking at his former school

First he was banned from Twitter, and now it looks like British conservative journalist Milo Yiannopoulos has been banned from speaking at his former school in England.

Yiannopoulos, an editor at ultra-conservative online news outlet Breitbart News, was scheduled to speak at the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury, Kent, this week. Monday he posted on Facebook that the lecture had been canceled because of intervention from the counter-extremism unit from the British Department of Education.

The school said in a statement that they had been in communication with the Department for Education about safety concerns with the speaker's appearance. The statement provided to BuzzFeed News said, "we at The Langton remain committed to the principle of free speech and open debate and will resist, where possible, all forms of censorship."

That same news report said the decision was ultimately made by the school and that the government department cannot dictate who speaks at events.

Yiannopoulos had been expelled from the school for "absolutely outrageous behavior," according to his post announcing the talk last week.

Fellow school alumni had been against the alt-right pro-Trump journalist's appearance at the school. In an open letter they wrote that his hate speech against women, blacks and Muslims should not be welcomed at the school in a talk to young men.

"Inviting Milo to talk is not an example of 'supporting free speech' it is actively encouraging him to spout his far-right views to young men," the letter stated. "Simon Langton School is actively permitting and encouraging a proponent of hate speech to speak in their grounds."

Representatives from the National Union of Teachers also had expressed concern about the highly outspoken and often offensive speaker last week.