Group Defending Andrew Tate’s Victims Has Anti-LGBT Past

The outfit pushing a raft of tech-regulation bills in multiple states and assisting women that kickboxer and internet influencer Andrew Tate allegedly trafficked is a religious right group with a long record of battling gay rights and “obscenity”—but which has in recent years successfully rebranded as the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, despite continuing to reap millions from cash-flush conservative interests.

Eight state houses are either currently considering or have already passed bills the National Center on Sexual Exploitation helped draft, NBC News reported earlier this year, including legislation that would require electronic devices to automatically filter nude and explicit imagery. Users wishing to view such content would have to enter a passcode to access it.

Meanwhile, the group lit up outlets ranging from ABC to Rolling Stone for standing up to Tate, a notorious alt-right persona accused in Romania of abusing and exploiting six women, two of whom have been represented by NCOSE attorneys.

Read more at The Daily Beast.