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[–] 113 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm glad he gets to waste not only his money, but Meta's and TikTok's too.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Private companies can ban you.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    Nobody owes you a platform.

    But I'm glad I get to see so many shitty people/corporations fighting each other.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago
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    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    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?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Had to look twice to check whether this was a screenshot of a Grand Theft Auto game.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Discovery will be really interesting here.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why is the guy right behind him mugging for the camera? Real Bulk & Skull energy.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Its the first line of the article. I don't like the guys either, but reading more than headlines is something everyone should do, and is partly to blame for the sensational news bullshit we deal with today.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Opposing counsel needs to ask for summary dismissal based on weak chin

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I hope his lawyer bills help bankrupt him.

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  • [+] -27 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I hope he wins, or at least costs the companies as much money as possible.

    This censorship needs to end.

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  • [+] -26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    There needs to be a distinction between the right to free speech and the right to a massive megaphone and 50 kwatt PA system. You can go out in the street and say whatever the hell you like. You can set up your own website and do the same.

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    [–] 129 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You misspelled "rapist and sex trafficker who looks like Gollum"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If I was locked in a room with Gollum, I wouldn't be afraid.

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    [–] 58 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh discovery ought to be interesting.

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Isn't andrew tate in a Romania prison for child sex trafficking?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    I wish them both a long and costly litigation.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    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?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    May they pay for their crimes they have committed and may they end up with incurable hemorrhoids the size of grapefruits.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [+] -19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    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!

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  • [+] -16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Good.

    Censorship needs to end.

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It is best to let this metric ton pile of shit to fade away.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    His genitals got bitten off by a donkey, if I recall correctly. Big donkey is pressuring social media to not platform him. But Elon Musk is standing up to the donkey industrial complex, because his genitals were bitten off by a donkey, too.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I hope this chud gets a bad batch of protein-shake powder and gets horribly poisoned and dies.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I hope it bankrupts everyone involved.

    (I realise that bankrupting Facebook is basically impossible, but we're allowed to have dreams)

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