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Apple has withdrawn an app created by Andrew Tate after accusations that it encouraged misogyny and could be an illegal pyramid scheme.
Tate created the app, Real World Portal, after the closure of his “Hustler’s University”, which was an online academy for his fans, promising to assist them in making thousands of pounds while helping Tate’s videos on social media, which have been described as misogynistic, to go viral.
McCue Jury & Partners, the firm representing four British women who have accused Tate of sexual and physical assault, claimed that the app deliberately targets young men and encourages misogyny, including members of the app sharing techniques on how to control and exploit women. The firm has also claimed that there is evidence to suggest that the app is an illegal pyramid scheme, with members being charged $49.99 a month to join.
Last week, the Real World Portal app was removed from Google’s Play store after claims that it was an illegal pyramid scheme and encouraged misogyny.
On Friday night Apple also said it had removed it from its app store. It followed a letter from the legal firm asking Apple to consider whether the app was in line with its policies and whether the company was exposing itself to any corporate liability in hosting it on its platform.
Part of the letter, dated 15 September, said: “We are writing because our clients are extremely concerned that you are hosting Tate’s Real World Portal (RWP) mobile application on your Apple Store … In continuing to host RWP, not only is Apple potentially indirectly financing Tate’s alleged criminal activities but is aiding the spread of his misogynistic teachings.”
The firm had claimed that Apple was directly profiting from hosting the app, with the company taking 30% in royalties from apps and in-app purchases.
Four women in their late 20s and early 30s are pursuing civil proceedings against Tate over alleged offences between 2013 and 2016 while he was still living in the UK.
Before the news that Apple had withdrawn the app, Matt Jury, the lawyer representing the women, said: “Andrew and [his brother] Tristan Tate manipulate their significant online following to promote subscriptions to Real World Portal. From there, the benefits to users are entirely reliant upon new subscribers joining the platform.
“There is also significant evidence that this scheme is directly targeting boys and teenagers and, in my view, is nothing more than an exploitative app which has no place on Apple’s platform.”
Tate is awaiting trial in Romania on charges of human trafficking. He and Tristan were charged in June, along with two Romanian female suspects, with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The suspects have denied the allegations.
A spokesperson for Andrew Tate said: “We unequivocally deny the allegations that ‘The Real World’ app operates as a pyramid scheme or perpetuates harmful techniques aimed at exploiting any individuals, particularly women. The user community, which includes a significant number of women within the 200,000-strong user base, can attest to the positive impact and educational value the app provides.
“Accusations suggesting otherwise are unfounded, lacking credible evidence, and seem to be part of a targeted campaign against Andrew Tate, a known supporter and promoter of the platform. ‘The Real World’ maintains a commitment to complete transparency, ensuring compliance with all legal and ethical standards. We invite sceptics to examine the app independently and affirm that it operates in accordance with legal and moral requirements.
“The platform is designed as an educational tool that fosters healthy habit formation, financial literacy, and self-discipline, with thousands of lives positively impacted. The decision by Google Play is being appealed.”
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It’s really confusing how people view this twee whiny bully as ‘manly’
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There exists a vast population of struggling young men who are easy marks when it comes to romance and sex. I mean 4chan exists. As does OF and to a lesser extent, Twitch. He’s just as much a predator of those men as he is young women.
Growing up online is seriously going to mess up the next generation.
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Because they are desperate. Same tactic employed by this late night self help infomercials. They pray on people that have tried everything and still have no made progress. The “but what if it works” mindset is super exploitable.
Tate and his ilk just do that. Exploit the easily exploitable. Men. Women. Anyone really. It’s just wildly absurd to think Tate (or people like him) only exploit one segment of the population.
I think it’s also a perceived value thing. You think something has more value when you pay for it, or at least you pretend to think so to save face.
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They obviously lack a role model in their life. If there is a market for such an app, who has or is going to develop an app that fills that gap and offers the knowledge sincerely that they are missing, without the abusive parts?
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He has muscles and hates women. What’s more manly than that?
Ohhhhh god I was on a plane recently and a young couple sat down next to me. I wasn’t tuned in for their whole conversation but at one point I heard her chiding him for how he gets emotional when he’s upset.
She busted out her phone and showed him an Andrew Tate clip where he says something about how no one wants to hear your complaints so don’t waste your time with them, just be a man and be stoic. He used the word stoic.
The young guy shrugged and said “what does he know?”
She said “you’re going to tell me that one of the strongest men in the world, with all his insight, says this and you’re going to just ignore it?”
I snorted out loud, unable to catch myself. Thankfully they didn’t notice.
good! tate is a removed who should be cemented under a prison…
yes, immurement does seem like adequate punishment for his kind
Hmmm, I wonder if Tate has a taste for rare and expensive wines…
I’d rather he squalor in obscurity for the rest of his life. It seems a much better punishment.
I thought he was still in jail
He can stay at home atm, but he’ll be judged and jailed soon
You spelled “pay bribes and walk free” wrong. Tate set up shop in one of the most corrupt countries in the world for a reason.
Yeah, but then he laughed at their corruption, humiliating the country on a international scale. He will be made an example of.
Why would they be going to all this trouble to prosecute him just to set him free? Are you saying this is a shakedown for his mega mega millions?
And he got his ass handed to him in no time.
Corrupt or not, he’s going down. That he’s “free” right now isnonyo because in Europe you can’t be jailed indefinitely until your trial starts. He’s out becaut they’re still working in the investigation, it looks like there quite thorough. I fully expect him to disappear for multiple years
What needs to be done is have countries block payments to this service. You could sideload this on Android, not sure about apple. But block the money.
His fanbase isn’t smart enough to know side loading is a thing.
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Yeah, that’s what I want. For the government to tell me who I am or am not allowed to spend money with. I’m sure that wouldn’t have any negative repercussions.
Tolerance ends with intolerance. This man takes money and gives nothing back, has a criminal history of human trafficking. If a democratic institution of laws sees fit to take away his income then that seems fine to me.
Because that doesn’t already happen. Ever heard of drugs?
This is already a thing. Panic over.
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Time to post another video in a shadowy room full of leather and stank. Better pop that shirt off.
Stop it, I can only get so erect
I can’t believe that people still idolize this rapist and sex trafficker.
Right . What’s the term for that ? Willful ignorance ? Or just stupidity?
Imagine thinking you had to spend your life trying to please certain people. Imagine that you keep failing. And you don’t know what to do. In all likelihood you’re having these problems because you’re a piece of shit but you just have no idea how to not be a piece of shit. You’re really starting to get down on yourself and despair.
But then along comes someone who tells you no, you’re the victim. Fuck those people. They’re the oppressors. They owe you an apology.
That’s a very enticing message for someone who’s at the bottom of a well, emotionally.
Doesn’t he have a twitter account?
He has a Twitter owner too
One of my coworkers unfortunatly became a conspiracy theorist due to andrew tate. He was a nice young man, now he’s a misogynist piece of shit. Claiming things like “the secret jewish world goverment wants Tate removed, because he tells the truth” or “women are inferior in every way, so rape is okay because women are a mens property and he can also own more than one”
It’s very sad how young, religios men and teens can be so easily exploited for personal gain.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Last week, the Real World Portal app was removed from Google’s Play store after claims that it was an illegal pyramid scheme and encouraged misogyny.
Before the news that Apple had withdrawn the app, Matt Jury, the lawyer representing the women, said: “Andrew and [his brother] Tristan Tate manipulate their significant online following to promote subscriptions to Real World Portal.
He and Tristan were charged in June, along with two Romanian female suspects, with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
A spokesperson for Andrew Tate said: “We unequivocally deny the allegations that ‘The Real World’ app operates as a pyramid scheme or perpetuates harmful techniques aimed at exploiting any individuals, particularly women.
“Accusations suggesting otherwise are unfounded, lacking credible evidence, and seem to be part of a targeted campaign against Andrew Tate, a known supporter and promoter of the platform.
“The platform is designed as an educational tool that fosters healthy habit formation, financial literacy, and self-discipline, with thousands of lives positively impacted.
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Imagine anyone thinking that Andrew Tate is going to help them make money.
I don’t believe that this app was created by Andrew Tate.
Tate is a programmer?
He hired some. You can pay People to do it.
They don’t teach journalists how to use the proper words in journalism school, okay? He created the app.
Actualized.org is less of a scam in comparison to this joker
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Why would you support / advise these fukn ahats?
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Racists, sexists and homophobes do not deserve a platform from which they can continue to spew their vitriol.
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are you really comparing women rights movement to the things a removed like tate is doing ? He is not a minority, he is a lowlife who is actually abusing women.
what the actual fuck?
That isn’t what was said, but what you inferred.
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those are not opinions this is highly predatory behavior and indoctrination of a lowlife which wants to make money with a scheme and by abusing women.
those people don’t need a platform.
I respectfully disagree, if we think speech is a human right, it has to be for everyone, or it’s for no one.
This is where everyone gets it wrong. Can you say anything you want? Sure, I suppose so. But there are CONSEQUENCES for what you say. One of those consequences is that a particular bit of speech is frowned upon at best, and made illegal at worst. It would be totally fine to yell “Bomb,” on an airplane if there was never a bomb on an airplane, and never would be. But there has been, and there probably will be again, so you can’t yell that without CONSEQUENCES. The consequences that these asshats are facing for their particular brand of bullshit is that they are being silenced, because they should not be saying the things that they are. Plain and simple. Is speech a right? Sure, until it’s abused, and then the rights of the many override the right to speech of the few.
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No one has a right to make an app, let alone have that app published by a third party company that has a responsibility to their shareholders, the public, and the government. By your definition, CSAM should be allowed on the app store until a judge orders it to be taken down… That’s not how the internet works, and you know it. The internet is about moderation–self, and imposed. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Reddit, Lemmy, and millions of others must rely on self moderation first, and then impose moderation if that fails. Then, and only then, when moderation at the app/website level fails, do these go to court to get at the root of the problem. I’m sorry that you feel moderation infringes on your right to free speech, but seriously, you have the most paper thin arguments for it.
I respectfully disagree, if we think speech is a human right, it has to be for everyone, or it’s for no one.
Let’s say you own a cafe with an open mic night. One day, someone comes in to the open mic night and starts yelling racist slogans and repeating Nazi rhetoric.
You can let them continue because you’re a free speech absolutist, and lose your customers, or you can kick him out.
There is no difference between this and what Apple or YouTube does except for scale.
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Ok, so Andrew Tate can open his own app store. Problem solved.
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Ok, I’ll try to explain the issue with that. Do I have the right to pay someone to kill you? No. Then there’s already a limitation on my speech AND use of private property. How can we reconcile that with free speech? By thinking about why free speech or any human rights matters. I could go on a dissertation here, but I’ll skip what is easy to find online anyway and jump to the conclusion: human rights are positive rights that are intended to protect human dignity (in the philosophical sense of the indivisible and equal worth of all human life), so it follows that free speech only applies to speech that doesn’t go against that goal. If you don’t do this exercise you end up with the Paradox of Tolerance and all human rights crumble like a house of cards.
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A stable society is not one where you can go to all of your neighbors and tell them a random person is a pedophile in order to start a mob in the name of free speech.
A stable society is not one where you can walk into a Walmart and start yelling the N-word but not get kicked out in the name of free speech.
A stable society is not one where you can sexually harass a co-worker without repercussions in the name of free speech.
You don’t want a stable society, you want chaos.
Private company’s policy isn’t dictated by anything but what can make them more money, which is by and large public opinion.
Public opinion is that this guy and his ilk are removed and don’t deserve a platform.
Where your argument falls apart in the internet age, public policy or private policy, is that it’s so easy for this ooze, this tar, this black filth to fill into dark crevasses, one’s you don’t think of, don’t imagine, because they are naturally borne of their time. We don’t have time to even make public policy before they happen and become problems.
We have things like incel communities because these people feel lost, and have banded together to feel some sort of connection because of their joint feelings, but these feelings have a negative direction that leads to them being deeply troubling.
In a normal community these would be nipped in the bud because it wouldn’t travel very far without negative reaction, but with the internet people can find their pockets, positive and negative, and relish in those communities, for better or for worse.
So because a natural word of mouth community can’t rid the spread of these ideals, and our systems of governance, especially internationally, can’t keep up with them, we’re supposed to just let them spread because the internet has this new electric borne free speech?
If the idea can’t stand the germination through natural lifecycles, then why does it deserve to stand an unnatural one?
And so I posit, why does a private entity need to wait for a public one to make a decision, when the general public at large has already made it.
He can make his own website. Look up LAMP and get to work. You can’t actually be deplatformed from the entire internet so this argument is moot.
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Whilst I understand your point Iggy/miles sonkin the defacto leader is on record of saying the following when talking of treatment of women:
Let’s not kid ourselves this is Pavlovian conditioning!
I can’t see why anyone would allow them to retain access to anyplatform.
Looks like a cult, acts like a cult, it is a cult!
Exactly, both sides should be heard.
One sides says that women should be able live without being in constant fear of assault and harassment, and the other says that women are pieces of meat , to be used and thrown away.
Both have equal merit, and should definitely be in public discourse.
The huge problem with everyone shifting from Reddit is there is the echo chamber and hive mind is going to build back up with it. Most people can’t seem to be nuanced enough to appreciate your comment because they’re seething so much over who the subject is. Liberty is deserved amongst all, not just those you agree with.
You know what? I am fine with a hive mind that collectively decided nazis should be punched and andrew human trafficker tate should be deplatformed.
Sounds like you’re on par with the nazis yourself there buddy. Keep advocating violence and censorship 🤌
Fuck off with that “antifascists are the real nazis” shit.
Lol way to rebuttal yourself. Truth is, you’re no different. But hey, I’m an ancapper, I must be fucked up for thinking every individual has the same rights. 🙄
Also, legitimate question here…what has Andrew Tate factually done that makes him a Nazi and/or fascist?
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The fediverse (Lemmy included) deplatforms people all the time; it’s called defederation and it’s built into the core of the architecture.
Even platforms built on openness, such as Lemmy, understand the need to not provide a platform to violence, bigotry, and exploitation.
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Should the service providers that host PWAs and their databases be forced to serve them if their content violates their policies?
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But if you view internet service providers, as common carriers, i.e. telecommunition utilities - then yes they should be forced to, unless it’s illegal.
Forced to how exactly? This isn’t forcing a company to provide water for an individual, this is forcing a company to provide non-essential services to a business.
Can the provider raise prices? Can they change their contract? Are they forced to provide these services in perpetuity?
But let’s say the unpopular app is self hosting its own website, serving its own PWA from its own servers, as long as there isn’t a court order, I don’t think utilities should shut them down.
Oh, that would be great actually, I hope they do that.
That way, they’ll get doxed within 5.2 seconds of the app going live and everybody will know the people on the app.
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If you view them as utilities, like the water company and the power company, then they have to be forced to provide equal services for equal pay to all people.
To businesses too? Are water and power companies forced to provide services to any and all businesses?
I’m not sure they’d get doxed, we know it’s Andrew Tate after all, but they would get DDoSed.
Well, I assume he’s not the only one to participate on his forum or website.
Plus his fans tend to be the kind of people who tell you they’re his fans.
I’m not concerned about the ones that do, I’m concerned about the ones that don’t.
They’re not exactly hiding
But you wouldn’t know about the ones hiding, because they would be… hiding.
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Why are you talking about internet service providers? This is an article about the app store. The app store is in no way a common carrier. Neither is any operating system. Neither is any hardware platform.
What not knowing the paradox of intolerance does to a mfer:
this one ?
Sounds right, what is that comic replying to?
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And who should be having that discussion? Faux News?
This fuckwit is not being persecuted by the government. He’s being kicked out of Apple’s private playground.
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So you want people to access racist, misogynist, and generally hateful stuff? Glad we sorted that out!
It’s not what’s intolerable, it’s what’s intolerant. Misogyny is clearly intolerant of women.
I think these guys should look into not being such dumb fucking incel losers.
Progressive web apps are great, i wish more people use it. 👍
I wish Apple wouldn’t restrict them as much as they do.
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I love the concept of crypt.ee, I just don’t have enough usage to justify the cost. I’m trying out voyager now though! Any other recommendations?
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I’m not condoning any of his alleged actions, but it’s neither Apple’s nor Alphabet’s place to unduly influence what I as a user do, say, think or feel.
It absolutely is Apple’s place to policy the content in their store.
I agree, however they also don’t allow sideloading as far as I know. I think there’s a distinction between policing whats on your store, and what users can install from anywhere.
I agree to a certain point, I have Linux on all my computers because of the freedom. But I have an iPhone, the only apple thing I own, and one of the main reasons is the AppStore and how restrictive it is.
I would say that for the average end user being able to install software from anywhere is a liability and causes a lot more issues than it solves, I’ve seen lots of computers running like trash because the users kept just typing ‘download \ free’ on google and going along with any random shady site that popped. Apple cater more to these average users than to power users, and honestly the google play store is a dumpster fire. A walled garden doesn’t sound that bad when it’s the wastelands outside
I actually like that policy. In years I haven’t had the desire or need to install random apps from websites, and I can’t think of anything I’m missing that is excluded from the app store. People do stupid things with security when they install apps from random websites, because most users have no clue at all about privacy or what rogue apps can do. This is especially dangerous with kids and older people. Considering phones can give away location, record audio and video, banking passwords and so on, I think locking them down is fine. Regular apps are bad enough. We don’t need more phone malware.
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You should check out “obtainium”. You can install apps directly from source. https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
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I use obtainium for my password manager and a few other apps, i also use f-droid for other apps. The way i understood it, is that f droid uses their own keys for signing apps, different from the source of those apps. But i may be mistaken on that. Also, i use graphene os, even though i believe burritos uninstalled it due to personal issues with the origonal copperhead creator. It still is, imo, the most secure os
Then sideload the app if you want it. Nobody is obligated to host files they don’t want on their servers.
“I think rapists must be free to spread their hateful violent message for profit”
You are, at the very least a rape apologist and an active contributor to rape culture, scumbag.
I can understand that Apple doesn’t want this garbage on their platform, but they should allow sideloading.
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I know, but iOS is still garbage. (I used an iPhone for 3 Years, recently switched to GrapheneOS) iOS is essentially spyware, if you can, move away from Apple. GrapheneOS is better than iOS, Stock Android and most Android Custom ROMs. It’s probably the most private and secure mobile OS in the world. Secure enough that even Edward Snowden uses it.
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True, those who are stranded on closed and proprietary operating systems deserve help. I just want to say that sideloading won’t suddenly turn iOS into a customer-respecting, private and open plattform.
