Tristan Tate, the outspoken European kickboxing champion, has made GETTR his new online home after facing permanent bans across mainstream social networks like Instagram and Twitter. GETTR bills itself as a free speech haven where those cancelled elsewhere can continue publishing uncensored content.
The Turbulent History of Tristan and Andrew Tate with Big Tech Giants
Tristan and his older brother Andrew Tate skyrocketed to fame for their brazen, unfiltered commentary aimed at empowering young men. But their controversial opinions also led to clashes with social media platforms:
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YouTube – Demonitized and eventually removed TateSpeech and TateConfidential channels with 700k+ subscribers in early 2022 for violating harassment policies. Videos deleted.
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TikTok – Permabanned the brothers in March 2022 for unspecified violations around dangerous ideologies.
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Facebook – Deleted Andrew‘s public figure page with over 1.7 million followers in August 2022.
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Instagram – Disabled Andrew‘s account with 4.7 million followers in August 2022 for affiliation with dangerous organizations or individuals per Meta‘s guidelines.
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Twitter – Suspended Tristan, Andrew and their cousin‘s accounts since 2020 for various violations around hateful conduct rules.
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Twitch – Indefinitely banned Andrew‘s streams under its hateful conduct policies in September 2022.
This mass, sudden deplatforming significantly disrupted the Tate brothers‘ reach and income while casting them into exile from mainstream sites. GETTR emerged as one of the only viable social platforms welcoming cancelled personalities.
An In-Depth Profile of Tristan Tate on GETTR
Tristan Tate (@talismantate) joined GETTR in January 2022 once bans started mounting on sites like TikTok and YouTube. His account now has over 73,000 dedicated followers as of February 2023.
Tate uses the platform to share quotes, thoughts, training insights, fashion/lifestyle photos and general motivation primarily targeted at male audiences. Some examples from recent posts:
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"There is no chance of achieving greatness if you waste time worrying about what other people think." [9.3k likes]
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"Eventually I realised that making excuses for not training is actual nonsense." [8.2k likes]
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"If you want to test a man‘s character, give him power." [7.1k likes]
Compared to his brother Andrew Tate‘s 98k GETTR followers, Tristan has built a similarly passionate community that enjoys direct access to his opinions. His posts average over 1,200 likes each – exceptionally strong engagement.
This level of active support far exceeds what Tristan could expect on tightly restricted platforms like Instagram or Twitter where sharing his true thoughts leads to immediate content deletion or account suspension.
GETTR‘s Formula for Fighting Online Censorship
GETTR differentiates itself through robust free speech infrastructure designed to counter increasing cancel culture and arbitrary banning practices across social networks:
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Algorithms – Software filters out calls for violence but doesn‘t automatically block controversial opinions, slurs or insults to protect political discourse.
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Reporting Tools – Users can report illegal speech but not simply content they disagree with ideologically. Strict policies against false mass flagging.
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Verified Accounts – Blue checkmarks help mitigate impersonation and fraud without identity verifications used on other sites to discriminate against marginalized viewpoints.
This policy and technical framework allows figures with rejected ideas to fully exercise their voice instead of facing suppression for their beliefs. But it has also led to accusations that GETTR harbors extremism.
Controversies Around Early Adopters and Messaging
GETTR initially gained traction among far-right conservatives and conspiracy groups banned from sites like Twitter and YouTube. Founder Jason Miller is a former Trump advisor. Politicians like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene flocked to the platform.
Critics argued the nascent network lacked proper content moderation to filter dangerous speech and misinformation spread by these early power users. Advertisers continue shunning the site today over questions around its user base despite management reforms.
Separate from these platform-level concerns, divisive personalities like the Tate brothers draw regular accusations of pushing bigoted, radicalizing messaging themselves:
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Academic studies of Tates‘ video clips find frequent degrading generalizations of women to blame for depression in men. But fuller context often shows more nuance.
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Psychologists see emotional manipulation in their harsh style of male self-help coaching. Though evidence suggests it resonates with certain mindsets.
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Fans argue synchronized mass reporting and biased media coverage misrepresent Tates as overwhelmingly misogynistic despite positive intentions.
Regardless of these ongoing controversies, the reality remains that GETTR serves a clear purpose – empowering cancelled figures to reach niche support bases.
The Vital Role GETTR Fills Despite Mainstream Avoidance
While GETTR continues struggling to shed its reputation tied to extreme early users, the platform plays an indispensable role as the only viable outlet for certain orphaned creators like Tristan Tate robbed of audiences elsewhere.
Despite enrolling over 8 million users, GETTR still gets dwarfed by the reach of sites like Facebook and Twitter. Its uncompromising free speech standards also limit advertising dollars to stay afloat.
Yet these constraints underscore that without providing an inclusive forum, complex voices across the sociopolitical spectrum would enjoy no public presence whatsoever in the age of mass deplatforming.
So whether one sees them as righteous or roguish, polemic ideologues or principled trailblazers, GETTR at least equips figures like the Tates to clearly articulate beliefs that decide their fate rather than face unilateral silencing.
The platform‘s defiant support for uncensored discourse fulfilling its purpose for prominent outcasts like Tristan Tate who rely on it to stay socially viable after banishment from mainstream sites with tighter speech controls.
GETTR remains on the vanguard protecting expressive freedoms – however objectionable – as big tech encroaches further upon spaces for open debate every day.
