Andrew Tate: What other celebrities were banned from Instagram and why?
Andrew Tate becomes just another online celebrity banned off of Facebook and Instagram, with other platforms considering a ban for the professional sexist.
Andrew Tate is the latest online celebrity to be banned from Meta’s platforms including Facebook and Instagram. Meta has stated that Tate was deplatformed under their rules regarding dangerous individuals and groups. No further comments on the action has been released by the company.
Tate is familiar with this fate
Tate was removed from Twitter in 2017 after he said that women who are raped “bare some responsibility” for their attack. This incident shows that Tate’s misogyny can be traced back years and is not a new aspect of his online shtick.
How did Andrew Tate make his money?
The former-kick boxer gained his wealth through the sex work industry, setting up some of his romantic partners on a webcam to talk to men online. While women are responsible for his wealth, he denigrates the entire gender by drawing strict lines delineating what women are and are unable to do. He has also made comments that physical abuse may be needed to punish women who disobey their man.
Before his current rise to fame Andrew Tate was a known supporter of the British far right and a supporter of Brexit.
“If I were in charge of Brexit I would send them a letter saying here is how much money you are going to get from England with a big fat zero,” said Tate while commenting on the negotiations with the European Union.
He then goes onto say that leaders in England are “pussies” because they won’t stand up and pass a law stating that no laws are going to change as the UK leaves the EU.
“We are no longer in the European Union because there are a whole bunch of laws that everyone is arguing about, the Ireland thing, fishing, all this bullshit […]. I am going to pass a law now that everything stays the same until it is changed. Done! No money All laws stay the same. […] You got a problem Europe? Fuck off we are going to do trade with Donald Trump.”
His comments show a how uneducated he is on the difficulties of Brexit, specifically the dangerous and volatile situation between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
On the trade front, Tate should be aware that the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, which Tate neglects to mention was $2.7 trillion in 2020 while that of the European Union hit more than $17 trillion.
Additionally, to say that the country will “do trade with Donald Trump” demonstrates a blatant misunderstanding of trade relations work and the associated complexities.
Who else has been banned by Meta?
Andrew Tate is one of many right-wing figures to be removed from Meta’s platforms.
InfoWars founder Alex Jones was banned from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and all other major social media companies in 2018. The platforms cited hate speech, spreading misinformation, and child endangerment.
Others including known Nazi, Milo Yiannopoulos, have also been removed from Meta platforms as well as, Paul Joseph Watson, Paul Nehlen, Laura Loomer, and Louis Farrakhan.
Right-wing commentators often argue that their speech is under attack but this does not stop them from trying to infringe on the rights to expressive freedoms of others. They also neglect the fact that the platforms from which they are being banned are private entities which allow them all the power under the law to determine what content they chose to have featured.