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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.