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Apple has withdrawn an app created by Andrew Tate after accusations that it encouraged misogyny and could be an illegal pyramid scheme.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Before the news that Apple had withdrawn the app, Matt Jury, the lawyer representing the women, said: “Andrew and [his brother] Tristan Tate manipulate their significant online following to promote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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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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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.
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?
I’ve never heard him speak but every time I see him he looks like an egg with a vagina stuck to it so I assume he sounds like something out of a Dali-esque Alice in Wonderland
Pretty much. He sometimes speaks with an American accent and other times a British accent, going back and forth at random which makes the British accent seem forced.
To be fair, he grew up in both the US and the UK. His mom is British, and he lived in the US until he was about 12, 13, then moved to the UK. Him having a very confused accent makes sense.
There, that’s the only time you’ll ever see me defending anything about that raging douche canoe.
“until he was about 12, 13” and matured no further.
Sure, it is authentic. Seems like he could pick one way of talking and stick with it though. That would make for a more professional delivery for someone that is basically paid to talk.
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Sounds like a job for AI
Lucky. Try to avoid hearing him for as long as possible.
Imagine a guy who dominates conversations by talking louder and a bit faster than everyone else, and doesn’t pronounce his Ts. Instead of kitten, he says ki-en, or instead of Bugatti, he says boo-gah-ee. He says the last one a lot.
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 cunt who should be cemented under a prison…
yes, immurement does seem like adequate punishment for his kind
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.
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.
On his pyramid schemes website, they actually have side loading as the only way to get the Android app. Just they don’t call it side loading it’s a direct link to the APK with no instructions.
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.
I can’t believe that people still idolize this rapist and sex trafficker.
Many also like Trump. Many aspects are a sick society.
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.
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.
I don’t believe that this app was created by Andrew Tate.
Actualized.org is less of a scam in comparison to this joker
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.
I couldn’t use my phone at all, without side loading apps. F droid makes side loading open source apps extremely easy, most the apps I use on a daily basis are side-loaded via f droid. My browser, my password manager, my video player, my podcast player, my map system, my VPN, my secure messenger,… none of which are on the main app store.
I’m only using this as an illustration that there is a use case for side loading your own independent ecosystem onto your phone. It gives users more choice
You should check out “obtainium”. You can install apps directly from source. https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
That’s super interesting. I looked at the burrito video, justifying the migration away from f Droid. And I agree, there’s a lot of good reasons to use the developer keys directly. One nice benefit of f droid though is ensuring the source code matches the binary. With their recent progress in reproducible builds, and using the developer signing keys for those builds, we get the best of both worlds.
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 a rape apologist and an active contributor to rape culture, scumbag.
ah so you haven’t got a clue how the real world works.
How things are isn’t always how they should be.
It’s the same as the right wing banning anything they don’t like or condone.
Are you actually going to equate a human trafficing piece of garbage to books about LGBT issues and ann frank’s diary?
I can understand that Apple doesn’t want this garbage on their platform, but they should allow sideloading.
In theory next year the EU will compel them to allow side loading. I look forward to an f Droid type platform for iOS.
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.
Seconding Grapheneos!
With an f Droid on iOS, I expect to be able to show my friend’s new pipe, simplex chat, real Firefox, hell maybe even briar.
It’ll lead to a better and more open ecosystem, even though graphene is the gold standard.
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.
Sounds like these guys should be looking at progressive web apps, if their being de-platformed from the app stores, PWAs are the only way to go. App stores cannot block progressive web apps, unless they remove the browser from the phone. So if you have a web browser you can use a PWA
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app
Not to mention it saves on development time, you just build a good progressive web app and it works on all platforms.
For people who don’t have experience with progressive web apps, Voyager the Lemmy client is a progressive web app. You visit it in a browser, and you can install the app locally from the browser itself. So the app runs in the browser locally. They’re pretty cool.
Should the service providers that host PWAs and their databases be forced to serve them if their content violates their policies?
No, as private companies they can have AUPs.
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.
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.
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.
If you view them as private companies, then they can have opinions and they can’t be forced.
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.
It’s up to you to decide which internet infrastructure counts as utility, there’s a lot of debate around that.
I would also like them to self host. I’m not sure they’d get doxed, we know it’s Andrew Tate after all, but they would get DDoSed. Plus his fans tend to be the kind of people who tell you they’re his fans. And they follow him on social media. They’re not exactly hiding
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.
Public Utilities are required to provide services to the public without discrimination, or personal agenda. That is why they are utilities.
Scenario:
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Power company decided it wouldn’t power specific religious buildings because they disagree with that faith
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Telephone company refuses to install telephone lines to black owned businesses
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Trash company refuses to pick up trash of Democrat election office
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ISP refuses to provide service to local pro-immigrate human rights group
In all of these scenarios they would be in violation of the public trust. Lawsuits at the very least, and probably changing the utility company with the local monopoly.
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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 ?
I’ll bite: for ideologies that are dangerous, they should be illegal. That would require a public discussion, a law, and a court to identify the perpetrators as breaking the law. Then they get depatformed.
The issue is not tolerating the intolerable, the issue is what is the process for identifying what is intolerable?
My original comment, was about an open internet, progressive web apps enable a more open internet with less non-judicial gatekeepers.
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.
I’m not saying Apple shouldn’t do that. They’re private organization they’re free to do as they like.
I brought up progressive web apps to indicate how people can use the internet with less non-judicial gatekeepers
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.
I’m really impressed with crypt.ee and voyager. PWAs really should be the future.
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?
I already listed the two PWAs I use daily.
I don’t use it personally, but I’m very impressed with Starbucks. They made their app a PWA!
Tinder, Spotify, Uber, telegram, etc…
PWAs are kind of like a silent revolution, they’re sneaking in, they’re coming! But it’s mostly companies that either believe in open software, have in app purchases and want to save the 30% store cut, or are trying to tap into emerging markets that don’t have phones that can support the full fat app so the faster PWA makes sense.
Just a clear up a lot of the comments below, I will not respond to any Godwin bait. I will respond to every comment I believe is in good faith.
