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Was Banning Andrew Tate From Instagram and Facebook The Right Thing To Do?
Just asking…
It was only a few days ago that I wrote an article about the extraordinary misogyny of Andrew Tate and the adherents of Incel Culture.
In the footage embedded to that very post, readers saw the young Anglo-American talking so much nonsense that one wondered how he built up a multi-million brand so quickly.
But I must confess that I was taken aback by the speed with which he was banned from Instagram and Facebook a few days ago.
That Tate is a misogynist of the very worst kind is not in dispute.
That millions of teenage boys in the United Kingdom and the United States are massive fans of our protagonist isn’t at all in doubt.
But we really must ask if banning him completely from these platforms was the right thing to do?
I ask this question because of the rank hypocrisy of Mark Zuckerberg’s outfit and the degree to which their concerns are driven by profits and certainly not by ethics or propriety.
Facebook, for the longest time, had been very happy to take money from far right groups and allow them free rein to spread the evil and bile.