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[HUMAN WA$TE @Dplanet]

🚨 Andrew Tate has a standard answer when his webcam business comes up. It was legal. The women were adults. They consented. He ran it in the open, and no one was harmed.

The defence fails at the foundation.

Heidi Blake's reporting establishes that Bibiana Hruskova - the first woman Tate filmed, and the one the whole operation was built on - was underage when it began. She was 15 when the earliest footage was made, and 17 when Tate set up her webcam profile in England.

Filming sexual content of someone under 18 is illegal in the UK, where this took place. Romanian prosecutors later established the same age finding for the wider case. And the lower age of consent in Romania does not help him. Producing sexual images of anyone under 18 is a separate offence there, whatever the rules on sex.

Consent does not enter into it. A child cannot consent to this, and the law makes no exception.

Hruskova was the template for everything that followed. Tate used her to demonstrate the method, then used her to bring in the women who came after. The business he asks the public to accept as clean was modelled on a case that was already a crime.

The "it's all legal" defence depends on no one asking how old she was when it started.

@HeidilBlake, "Andrew Tate's Empire of Abuse," The New Yorker...

(The article is behind a paywall, but there's a $1 per month deal that you can leave any time. Worth subbing just for this article).

https://t.co/1ZueOvK05B

[raido @musectech]

@INSEARCHOF250 @anneapplebaum @NewYorker its right here, it has nothing to do with mainstream media

https://t.co/LFxQvKdUKG

[raido @musectech]

archived version of the deleted tweet by roger stone.

https://t.co/dEGkoP9Xwg

[Lauren Southern @Lauren_Southern]

It has now nearly been one year since @McBrideLawNYC claimed the Tate brothers were going to relentlessly pursue me for defamation.

Still haven’t received so much as a cease and desist

When I last followed up McBride blocked me.

No fear when you tell the truth 💪🏻

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women. https://t.co/uxUfYPSlj7

[raido @musectech]

@_mirceabarbu archived version

https://t.co/dEGkoP9Xwg

[NewsForce @Newsforce]

Bombshell exposé from Andrew Tate's former spokeswoman reveals all their secrets.

The New Yorker reports that thousands of messages, court records, sealed files, and interviews with alleged victims paint a detailed picture of how that empire allegedly operated.

The report argues Tate’s rise from webcam entrepreneur to one of the internet’s most powerful influencers was driven by the same methods at the center of trafficking and abuse allegations.

Tate denies wrongdoing, but the investigation is likely to intensify scrutiny of one of the most controversial figures online.

[raido @musectech]

archived version of the deleted tweet by roger stone.

https://t.co/dEGkoP9Xwg

[Mircea Barbu @_mirceabarbu]

19/ Trump ally Roger Stone briefly posted on X:

“Richard Grenell secured the release of the Tates.”

The post was later deleted.

[Heidi Blake @HeidilBlake]

For the past 9 months, I've been investigating Andrew Tate's empire of sexual exploitation — drawing on thousands of private messages and sealed court files, as well as interviews with the Tates, their associates & more than a dozen alleged victims. Here's what I found: https://t.co/q1L65EVG1O

[Matthew Jury @MattJury_Law]

ANDREW TATE’S EMPIRE OF ABUSE

“How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune — and became a political force — by systematically exploiting women.”

Extraordinary reporting by @HeidilBlake in @NewYorker.

Having represented women alleging crimes by Tate for three years, I thought little could still shock me. This did.

It is essential reading for anyone who has followed the serious allegations against Tate, the spread of his misogynistic influence among boys and young men, and the dangerous overlap between the manosphere and far-right politics.

It should also, we can only hope, focus @GOVUK and @Keir_Starmer : at a time when violence against women and girls is described as a national emergency, why has the UK still not effectively pursued Tate’s extradition to face justice here?

Blake's article can be read in the thread below

[The Matrix. @Hot_take_nigel]

Great thread from @_mirceabarbu on how the trump administration pressured Romanian to lift the travel restrictions on the Tate brothers.

[Matthew Jury @MattJury_Law]

🗞️ WOMEN ACCUSING ANDREW TATE CRITICISE UK EXTRADITION DELAY AS INFLUENCER APPEARS IN RUSSIA

Lawyer for British women attacks ‘extraordinary spectacle’ of Tate’s arrival in Moscow

My comments to @guardian :

“By failing to secure Andrew Tate’s extradition, the British authorities have failed British women seeking justice as well as Britain’s wider interests,” he said.

“That failure has now produced the extraordinary spectacle of Tate travelling to Russia – a state that has decriminalised some forms of domestic violence – to be handed a new platform from which to attack western values and amplify Putin’s propaganda to his millions of followers.

“For a government that repeatedly calls violence against women and girls a national emergency, and is consistently unable to confront Russia’s relentless attempts to undermine our values, communities and democracy, this is a profound national embarrassment.”

Read the full article in the thread below 👇🏻

[Ben Goggin @BenjaminGoggin]

Candace Owens and the Tate brothers turned up in Russia. The Kremlin spun it as a thaw.

https://t.co/snTfn9QZyo

[The Real Suzanne Wynter @Therealsuzywyn1]

Surprise, surprise, more controversy following the Tate brothers.

It would appear they're not as welcome in Russia as they thought.

Andrew Tate Is in Russia — and Almost Everyone Hates It https://t.co/2RMCkER0tv

[raido @musectech]

@CrayonMurders love seeing all the comments under his own posts, he is getting destroyed right now 👌

[Murdered By Crayons 🖍️ @CrayonMurders]

Andrew Tate is suing around a dozen people on X for what he claims is defamation after we criticized him and shared his court documents.

But nothing we said comes remotely close to the acts he's accused of or the names he's being called today for going to Russia. Holy shit. 💀

[Adrian P 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇪🇺 @AdrianP_doc]

Two sex offenders and crypto scammers (Tate bros) and a clinically insane podcaster (Candece Owens) are Russia's go too people on promoting its image in the west.

Really scraping the shit from the bottom of the barrel.

Even that loser Steven Segal looks respectable next to these fools.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Closeted brothers desperately trying to stay relevant.

A few years ago, Andrew became a Muslim. Want to bet he'll now reinvent himself as an Orthodox Christian?

[raido @musectech]

@CrayonMurders @MyronGainesX @Gadget440 😂💀

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Good news, everyone! Andrew Tate has become largely irrelevant and now usually only regains attention when his sex trafficking allegations and other criminal cases make headlines

The world is healing.

[Murdered By Crayons 🖍️ @CrayonMurders]

Andrew Tate is upset that, as an American living in Romania, he is being indicted over speech.

Meanwhile, he is suing more than a dozen people for saying hurty words about him, sharing his court documents, and expressing their opinions.

Some might call that poetic justice.