I hope this chud gets a bad batch of protein-shake powder and gets horribly poisoned and dies.
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I hope it bankrupts everyone involved.
(I realise that bankrupting Facebook is basically impossible, but we're allowed to have dreams)
You misspelled "rapist and sex trafficker who looks like Gollum"
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!
Oh discovery ought to be interesting.
Isn't andrew tate in a Romania prison for child sex trafficking?
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?
May they pay for their crimes they have committed and may they end up with incurable hemorrhoids the size of grapefruits.
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.
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.
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!
Good.
Censorship needs to end.
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 😢
And for no reason too.
He did absolutely nothing to deserve it. A totally innocent dude who has definitely never committed any crimes ever.
I'm glad he gets to waste not only his money, but Meta's and TikTok's too.
Private companies can ban you.
Nobody owes you a platform.
But I'm glad I get to see so many shitty people/corporations fighting each other.
I don't care much about any of those three. But if they get into a fight, I hope they all die. At least financially, but some broken bones would be nice as well.
How does one get so self important as to think that someone owes you a megaphone to the point you demand $50M for not letting you spout your drivel?
Had to look twice to check whether this was a screenshot of a Grand Theft Auto game.
In a normal timeline any negatives for platforming a sex trafficker would out weight any expenses on this lawsuit, but it wouldn't surprise me if they cave to pressure from Trump and settle for 10 million.
Why is the guy right behind him mugging for the camera? Real Bulk & Skull energy.
I hope he wins, or at least costs the companies as much money as possible.
This censorship needs to end.
Tate deserves less than nothing.
Other people deserve a voice.
People should have a voice even if they use it to say things you don't like.
Edit: These downvotes make me glad none of you are in a position of power outside of your internet circles.
He can have a voice, but he doesn't necessarily deserve to be paid.
Gaza reporters are being censored and they aren't even asking for money.
These are privately owned services. Forcing them to be a platform for specific voices is the opposite of what you're advocating for.
As for myself, I'd prefer to live in a society where voices of hate and bigotry are not amplified.
Tate's running a business. He doesn't deserve free advertising. If he doesn't meet the TOS, tough shit.
It is best to let this metric ton pile of shit to fade away.
I don't know who Andrew Tate is, but the fact that only Elon Musk's Twitter lets him have an account tells me everything I need to know about him.

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