Apex Legends players are getting banned for talking about Andrew Tate Electronic ArtsAn Apex Legends player recently received a temporary suspension for calling out \u201cAndrew Tate cringe\u201d in the game\u2019s text chat. Former professional kickboxer Andrew Tate became the subject of much scrutiny throughout the year due to his controversial, misogynistic opinions on women. In recent months, several social media platforms \u2013 Instagram and TikTok included \u2013 have banned Tate, with a TikTok representative telling NPR the service wouldn\u2019t tolerate the influencer\u2019s \u201chateful ideology.\u201d Tate is far from the only person that social platforms are willing to kick because of his contentious views. Those who openly support him haven\u2019t fared much better in some cases. Apex Legends fan suspended for mentioning Andrew Tate in chat Redditor onyi_time recently played a game of Apex with users who were regurgitating Andrew Tate\u2019s talking points. The Reddit user responded in the text chat with the following comment, \u201cAndrew Tate cringe.\u201d As a result, \u201cI got banned for a week,\u201d onyi_time wrote on Reddit. A screenshot of the suspension message from Electronic Arts notes that such behavior is considered \u201cHateful Conduct.\u201d The player contested the decision, only for it to be deemed final upon review. Though the comment featured no hateful text, several others noted that typing \u201cAndrew Tate\u201d in the chat is \u201capparently bannable.\u201d \u201cAndrew Tate seems to be a blacklisted word for EA,\u201d someone else said. Still, many people agreed the weeklong ban constitutes an excessive punishment given the context. This isn\u2019t the first time the contentious influencer has sat at the forefront of Apex Legends-related bans. Just a few months ago, Apex Legends players were suspended for naming themselves Andrew Tate. This could explain the blanket ban tactics leveled against the recently suspended Redditor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends players are getting banned for talking about Andrew Tate Electronic ArtsAn Apex Legends player recently received a temporary suspension for calling out \u201cAndrew Tate cringe\u201d in the game\u2019s text chat. Former professional kickboxer Andrew Tate became the subject of much scrutiny throughout the year due to his controversial, misogynistic opinions on women. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}