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Can you elaborate on how you know that the human trafficking charges are bogus?

skilled 3y ago
Not to hijack his comment but I am open to betting my HN account that those charges on him will be cleared. There is no evidence on what he is accused of, and he has since appeared in podcasts with people who have done a lot of great interviews in the past. You’d have to be a complete idiot to associate with a trafficker unless your gut made it clear as day that there isn’t much meat to these potatoes. —- Oh no… the “i downvote but don’t comment” brigade has arrived.
- Eldt 3y ago
  Sounds like a parasocial bias
PicassoCTs 3y ago
They were for assange, and various other dissidents..
- deleted 3y ago
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- jrflowers 3y ago
  This is a good point. An entirely unrelated person was accused of a completely different crime in a different country once. This is proof that human trafficking doesn’t exist.
- arrosenberg 3y ago
  Even if you believe that, Andrew Tate isn't a dissident, nor does he have any claims to journalistic protections. At best he's a deep-fried Tom Leykis and at worst he's a human trafficker.
dudeinjapan 3y ago
According to NYT (https://archive.md/4tSmc https://archive.md/4tSmc) the key details of the charges are kept confidential by the prosecutors. Media has implied that Tate running a webcam business is ipso-facto illegal, but it is not--roughly 400,000 women and 5,000 companies do webcams in Romania. In various recent interviews (Tucker Carlson, Patrick Bet David, both on YouTube), Tate has claimed he is not charged with any sex/violent crimes including rape (contrary to NYT and other reports) nor is he charged with anything in connection to his webcam studio. Tate claims the only charges against him are seducing women (so-called "Loverboy method" of trafficking) to make Tiktok videos for which he did not receive financial compensation. If this is true, I would file it under the "bogus"/"arbitrary" category. (And without victim blaming, I would also observe that any woman who believes Tate's promise of a serious relationship has clearly not done her research.) Again because the full details of the charges are kept confidential ("Kafka-esque") none of us know, but I would think that Tate (with nudging from his lawyers) would be smart enough not to misrepresent the charges against him in interviews. He will have his day in court, and we will see then.

Not to hijack his comment but I am open to betting my HN account that those charges on him will be cleared. There is no evidence on what he is accused of, and he has since appeared in podcasts with people who have done a lot of great interviews in the past. You’d have to be a complete idiot to associate with a trafficker unless your gut made it clear as day that there isn’t much meat to these potatoes. —- Oh no… the “i downvote but don’t comment” brigade has arrived.

Eldt 3y ago
Sounds like a parasocial bias

PicassoCTs 3y ago

They were for assange, and various other dissidents..

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jrflowers 3y ago
This is a good point. An entirely unrelated person was accused of a completely different crime in a different country once. This is proof that human trafficking doesn’t exist.
arrosenberg 3y ago
Even if you believe that, Andrew Tate isn't a dissident, nor does he have any claims to journalistic protections. At best he's a deep-fried Tom Leykis and at worst he's a human trafficker.

dudeinjapan 3y ago

According to NYT (https://archive.md/4tSmc https://archive.md/4tSmc) the key details of the charges are kept confidential by the prosecutors. Media has implied that Tate running a webcam business is ipso-facto illegal, but it is not--roughly 400,000 women and 5,000 companies do webcams in Romania. In various recent interviews (Tucker Carlson, Patrick Bet David, both on YouTube), Tate has claimed he is not charged with any sex/violent crimes including rape (contrary to NYT and other reports) nor is he charged with anything in connection to his webcam studio. Tate claims the only charges against him are seducing women (so-called "Loverboy method" of trafficking) to make Tiktok videos for which he did not receive financial compensation. If this is true, I would file it under the "bogus"/"arbitrary" category. (And without victim blaming, I would also observe that any woman who believes Tate's promise of a serious relationship has clearly not done her research.) Again because the full details of the charges are kept confidential ("Kafka-esque") none of us know, but I would think that Tate (with nudging from his lawyers) would be smart enough not to misrepresent the charges against him in interviews. He will have his day in court, and we will see then.