You should though. Not for the same reasons as Tate but you definitely should be afraid of being locked in the same room as a deranged and highly aggressive baby eater who is basically always going through violent withdrawal.
Ladies and gentlemen! Line up to see conservative influences turn against free enterprise if it means that businesses are allowed to deny service to shitbags, and then twist and contort themselves to support it once again when a bakery refuses to make a cake for a gay wedding!
Lol, only if he were a lot poorer and a lot less white. That mother fucker launched a UK political party, acquired citizenship to Vanuatu, and rubbed elbows with the American Right in Florida. All within 2025 year to date.
As someone who used tiktok when he was a meme with the French song, it was a blatant action done against him. They (shadow) banned all the tiktok accounts making edits of him, they modified search results to put the official new sources relating to him at the top, hiding the user-generated content. Note, they did the same thing during the California wildfires to show only verified account videos to hide misinformation.
I think Tate is a grifter, but we really shouldn't let governments or big tech companies to artificially hide content because someone is a controversial figure.
You currently cannot search 'hitler' on tiktok at all. It's all a slippery slope that led to age verification, chat control, etc.
So get off of those platforms. Stop giving them that power.
There isn’t going to be some heroic government that will come in and make Silicon Valley and other assorted media owning billionaires suddenly behave like careful stewards of online discourse.
Nothing that they’re doing is illegal, you read the TOS, right? They have no incentive to change. Stoking outrage drives engagement and keeps the money rolling in.
It won’t affect them in any meaningful way. They can just move away if they accidentally tear a society apart.
I go where the relevant content is. I clearly don't mind using alternative social media like Lemmy, but tiktok has great creators and indie music that I wouldn't be exposed to anywhere else.
I use multiple social networks to prevent bias with adblockers to limit how much money they make.
Sometimes doing the right thing means making sacrifices.
I’d rather miss out on some content than support these systems that give a handful of rich narcissists control over all news and discourse in the western world.
I hate that he is doing it, but this needed to happen sooner than later. I just wish it was someone that was ‘deplatformed’ for no good reason… they will find many reasons to deplatform him.
Private platforms have every right to ban you, even if they just don't like you or your political beliefs. Censorship is mostly happening by the government and systematic media.
And that is why federated platforms are so important. If most people don't wanna see someone's bullshit they can ban him. And he has the right to run his own instance.
Note that I'm not defending Tate here. Many of his words and actions are actually harmful or hateful and he deserves to be arrested.
But there's a line between "illegal/harmful" and "unlikeable" which we need to remember.
28 Comments
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works · 135 pts · 358d
You misspelled "rapist and sex trafficker who looks like Gollum"
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 39 pts · 358d
jmd_akbar@aussie.zone · 31 pts · 358d
Now that's just unfair on poor Gollum... 😜
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 357d
Dont insult gollum!!!
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 356d
If I was locked in a room with Gollum, I wouldn't be afraid.
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 356d
You should though. Not for the same reasons as Tate but you definitely should be afraid of being locked in the same room as a deranged and highly aggressive baby eater who is basically always going through violent withdrawal.
sundray@lemmus.org · 60 pts · 358d
Ladies and gentlemen! Line up to see conservative influences turn against free enterprise if it means that businesses are allowed to deny service to shitbags, and then twist and contort themselves to support it once again when a bakery refuses to make a cake for a gay wedding!
PresidentCamacho@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 357d
But so many are shocked when they slowly turn the country towards fascism.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 358d
Oh discovery ought to be interesting.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 17 pts · 358d
arin@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 358d
Isn't andrew tate in a Romania prison for child sex trafficking?
Vanth@reddthat.com · 24 pts · 358d
Lol, only if he were a lot poorer and a lot less white. That mother fucker launched a UK political party, acquired citizenship to Vanuatu, and rubbed elbows with the American Right in Florida. All within 2025 year to date.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 25 pts · 357d
I wish them both a long and costly litigation.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 358d
Hey look, it's a miracle. A sack of shit has started to speak!
Oh...wait...it's just Andrew Tate, my mistake.
Why has nobody cleaned that thing off the surface of the Earth yet?
Geodad@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 357d
floo@retrolemmy.com · 11 pts · 358d
f1error@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 358d
Andrew Tate can suck my 'andy taint! I will happily fight this pedo/sex trafficker.
I'm 54, overweight, and out of shape, and I'll take this windbag out forever. Yeah, permanently.
echodot@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 357d
He strikes me someone who would go down to the first punch. He talks far too big a game to be the genuine article
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 357d
May they pay for their crimes they have committed and may they end up with incurable hemorrhoids the size of grapefruits.
uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club · -17 pts · 357d
Good.
Censorship needs to end.
ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 357d
True. That guy is so censored, I read news every two weeks about him, with his words quoted. Must suck to be censored like that 😢
echodot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 357d
And for no reason too.
He did absolutely nothing to deserve it. A totally innocent dude who has definitely never committed any crimes ever.
hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 357d
Sure. Populism too.
darkkite@lemmy.ml · -19 pts · 358d
As someone who used tiktok when he was a meme with the French song, it was a blatant action done against him. They (shadow) banned all the tiktok accounts making edits of him, they modified search results to put the official new sources relating to him at the top, hiding the user-generated content. Note, they did the same thing during the California wildfires to show only verified account videos to hide misinformation.
I think Tate is a grifter, but we really shouldn't let governments or big tech companies to artificially hide content because someone is a controversial figure.
You currently cannot search 'hitler' on tiktok at all. It's all a slippery slope that led to age verification, chat control, etc.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 358d
So get off of those platforms. Stop giving them that power.
There isn’t going to be some heroic government that will come in and make Silicon Valley and other assorted media owning billionaires suddenly behave like careful stewards of online discourse.
Nothing that they’re doing is illegal, you read the TOS, right? They have no incentive to change. Stoking outrage drives engagement and keeps the money rolling in.
It won’t affect them in any meaningful way. They can just move away if they accidentally tear a society apart.
darkkite@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 357d
I go where the relevant content is. I clearly don't mind using alternative social media like Lemmy, but tiktok has great creators and indie music that I wouldn't be exposed to anywhere else.
I use multiple social networks to prevent bias with adblockers to limit how much money they make.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 357d
Sometimes doing the right thing means making sacrifices.
I’d rather miss out on some content than support these systems that give a handful of rich narcissists control over all news and discourse in the western world.
darkkite@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 354d
I think the right thing is to diversify your media sources.
pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world · -20 pts · 358d
I hate that he is doing it, but this needed to happen sooner than later. I just wish it was someone that was ‘deplatformed’ for no good reason… they will find many reasons to deplatform him.
eldebryn@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 358d
Private platforms have every right to ban you, even if they just don't like you or your political beliefs. Censorship is mostly happening by the government and systematic media.
And that is why federated platforms are so important. If most people don't wanna see someone's bullshit they can ban him. And he has the right to run his own instance.
Note that I'm not defending Tate here. Many of his words and actions are actually harmful or hateful and he deserves to be arrested.
But there's a line between "illegal/harmful" and "unlikeable" which we need to remember.
espentan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 358d
I'm sure Trump will see many, many great and fabulous reasons to re-platform him.
Well why, would you look at that, a fellow rapist, and he's a trafficker too?! Hey, Elon, Suck, promote this man NOW!
shalafi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 358d
Sorta agreed, but the ruling could set a bad precedent if he wins.