Andrew Tate reveals location, gets arrested in Twitter exchange w Greta Thunberg
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I don't understand this. Doesn't a country keep records of who and when enters/exits it? Unless Andrew Tate has passports under different names, shouldn't Romanian authorities know whether he's in Romania or not?
Not particularly _good_ records, particularly on exits, in many cases. And I assume Romania has borders that you can basically just walk across; most EU countries do.
After doing some research, it seems that while Romania is in the EU since 2007, it, together with Bulgaria are not yet in the Schengen Area, so there should still be a border between Romania and Hungary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#Temporary_border...
But even if countries don't keep particularly __good__ records about persons passing their borders, I find it hard to believe that Romanian authorities used the video from a tweet to confirm Tate's presence in the country.
EDIT: Moreover, I've got the impression that the Tates are not the type of people to travel internationally by car. I imagined they flew in and out of Bucharest.
I guess I need to read up on him, I thought he was a grifter and a confidence man, getting rich of his social media influence. I thought all his criminal activity was limited to white-collar crime.
UPD: > ...Schengen... I don't think it's particularly tightly controlled.
I don't think that's right. I bet it's incredibly well controlled. That's pretty much the gateway to all other Schengen countries. There are very limited border controls within the Schengen Area, so I imagine the outer borders have to be secure.
social media (and twitter in particular) has caused an absolute damage to public discourse about anything at all. i don't know that person and have zero interest in what he does. but reading his supporters and non-supporters, likewise, on twitter leaves me in awe. human trafficking is now politicized?
how did we get there?
real victims are out there, and mouthpieces are amusing themselves on twitter. i can see this posing serious challenges in the future to any agency trying to sort these things out.
I, of course, could be wrong so feel free to correct me if need be.
Divisiveness is very, very old. As an American I trace it back to the foundation of the country, where a set of colonies bitterly divided by cultural differences agreed to put them aside against a common enemy. Even a Civil War didn't really resolve that. The culture war has shifted around but to this day falls largely on the same lines, and increasing communication gives more and more people the opportunity to prosecute it. The level of anger proceeds in lockstep with 24 hour cable news and the Internet.
Running so deep, we have a huge toolkit for finding ways to turn any event against each other. Even obvious opportunities to pull together can be cast as conspiracy, fake news, hoax, etc. as long as it blames your enemies. And with so much history of their malignance, it's easy to believe the next one.
I don't mean to just play "both sides are bad" here. I think that some people particularly enjoy the culture war and benefit from it. But the real issue is that there is nothing anyone can do to change their minds, precisely because any effort is proof of trying to harm them. The only way to fix it is for them to choose to and start a virtuous cycle instead of a vicious one. Since it has taken no steps in that direction during the half century of my existence, I do not anticipate it any time in the next half century
One reads all sorts of things on twitter, and very occasionally they're true. Not in this case, tho.
Detained for another 30 days: https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2022/1230/1344154-andrew-tate/
Depends on the country/location, however, in some countries even among IT crowd he’s glorified, to the point where it reflected in workplace, which most of us have :)