Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Famous misogynist Andrew Tate in the past week has been kicked off several major internet services, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Twitch, for violating their policies.
In an interview on Fox Nation’s “Tucker Carlson Today” released Thursday, Tate claimed the tech platforms barred him for flaunting what he said were his “traditional masculine values.” “They banned me simply because I had large swaths of the population agreeing to very traditional masculine values,” Tate said (via Fox News). “I live a very traditionally masculine life,” Tate told Carlson. “I have fast cars and a big house and a lot of money and a beautiful girlfriend, and they thought this was very, very threatening.
And for some reason, they decided that it’s better they annihilate me from the internet and replace me with somebody who’s more aligned with whatever they’re trying to propose.” Last week, Meta said it had permanently suspended Tate’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram for violating the company’s polices on “dangerous organizations and individuals.” Similarly, YouTube banned Tate’s channels, including TateSpeech, citing multiple violations of the platform’s community guidelines and terms of service, including its hate-speech policy.
Tate, who is 35, has repeatedly made hateful and occasionally violent comments about women. Over the years, the British-American former kickboxer has compared women to dogs, said women shouldn’t be allowed to drive, and argued that women should “bear responsibility” for being raped. “[I]f you put yourself in a position to be raped, you must bare [sic] some responsibility,” Tate tweeted in 2017, before Twitter permanently banned him shortly thereafter. “I’m not
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