it suits law enforcement to have people thinking that they did, rather than having people being aware of the nature of surveillance.
No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a Pizza Box
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#12Are these contrarian/scandalous/unapologetically insulting figures a new phenomenon or have they always been a part of pop culture? Seems like Tate-like or Yiannopoulos-like personas are attracting a lot of media coverage.
Attention is the currency of the digital age.
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#13> Thunberg is not known for her sense of humor
What? Guess you haven’t seen her responses to Donald Trumps attacks on her then.
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#14I seem to understand the guy has been live streaming on his private thing that subscribers pay for or whatever and has clearly been in Romania based on a bunch of clues such as the women who he had around him speaking the language between each other. You can see clips of that in this youtube rip of his final streaming days on "tate confidential" here, which is probably what got him busted. [1] Still insanely funny that this happened right in the midst of getting in a hugely ratio'd spate with Greta.
He got caught because he's the most arrogant public figure on the internet and thinks of himself as a demigod immune to the vicissitudes of things like human trafficking laws.
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#15Are these contrarian/scandalous/unapologetically insulting figures a new phenomenon or have they always been a part of pop culture? Seems like Tate-like or Yiannopoulos-like personas are attracting a lot of media coverage.
Have you listened to Tate in a more than 15 sec clip? I don’t agree with everything he says but he does speak the otherwise unspoken truth on many topics.
His attention is justified.
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#16Are these contrarian/scandalous/unapologetically insulting figures a new phenomenon or have they always been a part of pop culture? Seems like Tate-like or Yiannopoulos-like personas are attracting a lot of media coverage.
No it goes way back to the 80s and 90s when radio consolidated. You had guys like Limbaugh reading off lists of men who died of AIDS and laughing at them. Same grift, different generation.
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#17Alejandra Caraballo's tweet thread about her reasoning is here: https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1608709173684105217
I think it's worth reading it, although I am skeptical of her conclusions. However, he did Tweet from a Prague airport on December 26th so if the Gândul article is correct about Romanian authorities confirming his location via social media posts, it's reasonable to think that the pizza box might be one of those.
Also, Dreyfuss is missing information -- the castle photo he references isn't a castle, it's a hotel in Italy.
However, I don't have any strong reason to think that Gândul was correct or that the translation isn't missing a nuance.
My fairly uninformed stance here is "maybe, maybe not, no way to be sure."
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#18I came to hackernews to run away from that staged noise to keep twitter engagement high but it has spilled over to this platform as well.
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#19Are these contrarian/scandalous/unapologetically insulting figures a new phenomenon or have they always been a part of pop culture? Seems like Tate-like or Yiannopoulos-like personas are attracting a lot of media coverage.
There’s a good new podcast called The New Gurus from the BBC which explores this.
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#20I understand the clarification of this article but it seemed far too long. TL;DR - They didn’t use the pizza box to find his location in Romania, they used it to confirm that he was currently in the country to detain him. Edit: As called out below, this is also just speculation.
>they used it to confirm that he was currently in the country to detain him.
Even that is pure speculation