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Social media influencer Andrew Tate sues Meta, TikTok for over $50 million for ‘deplatforming’ him (globalnews.ca)

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[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 135 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 39 points 1 month ago

Why you gotta do my man Sméagol like that?

[–] jmd_akbar@aussie.zone 31 points 1 month ago

Now that's just unfair on poor Gollum... 😜

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago

Dont insult gollum!!!

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

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 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago

But so many are shocked when they slowly turn the country towards fascism.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh discovery ought to be interesting.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 17 points 1 month ago

Trump will pitch a fit and big tech will settle and reinstate Tater Tots accounts.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 24 points 1 month 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.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 25 points 1 month ago

I wish them both a long and costly litigation.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month 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?

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I hate both, so I enjoy seeing them fight each other.

[–] f1error@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 points 1 month ago

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

[+] darkkite@lemmy.ml -19 points 1 month ago (1 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.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 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.

[–] darkkite@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 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.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago

I think the right thing is to diversify your media sources.

[+] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world -20 points 1 month 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.

[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month 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.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Sorta agreed, but the ruling could set a bad precedent if he wins.