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Month: November 2017

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Media, Required Reading, Section 230

How SESTA Poses an Existential Threat to Wikipedia

Stephen Lemons/November 15, 2017November 30, 2017 /2 Comments

Being against the nonprofit online encyclopedia Wikipedia is like being against NPR, used book stores, frozen Snickers bars, rainbow-striped over-the-knee toe socks, and the Muppets. So it would stand to reason that threatening to do harm to the free, near-fathomless…

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First Amendment, Media, News, Section 230

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden Stands Up to SESTA

Stephen Lemons/November 14, 2017December 12, 2017

When it comes to the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA), will U.S. Senator Ron Wyden be the internet’s Little Dutch Boy, saving the day by plugging a leaky legislative dike? Or will Wyden’s latest efforts against the…

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banner from Roy Moore's Twitter account, showing his photo and the words, "Judge Roy Moore for U.S. Senate"
Media, Required Reading

Roy Moore Is One Sick Puppy — But It’s Not What You Thought

Tom Finkel/November 14, 2017November 30, 2017

The Front Page Confidential break room has no Keurig, and we’ve never considered purchasing one. We did, however, engage in a thought experiment this past weekend: Would buying a Keurig and then smashing it be a pro-Roy Moore statement or…

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Tom Steyer, middle-aged billionaire with full head of hair, smiling as he participates in the 2013 Fortune Brainstorm Green forum
Censorship, Media, News

Fox News Kills Liberal Billionaire’s Ad Pushing Trump Impeachment

Stephen Lemons/November 13, 2017November 14, 2017

When Donald Trump calls someone “wacky & totally unhinged” on Twitter, that’s practically a badge of honor in certain circles. Progressive California moneybags Tom Steyer earned the insult the old-fashioned way: by spending $10 million of his estimated $1.6 billion fortune…

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Image of Martha O'Donovan, wearing a flannel shirt and standing beside her lawyer, Odey Shava, who is wearing a dark suit and tie
Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Media, News

Zimbabwe Court Grants Bail to U.S. Woman Jailed for Insulting Dictator Robert Mugabe on Twitter

Stephen Lemons/November 10, 2017November 14, 2017

Following a week in a Zimbabwe prison infamous for its squalor, a 25-year-old American activist jailed for Twitter-bashing doddering dictator Robert Mugabe, is free on bail. During a November 9 hearing in the Zimbabwe capital of Harare, High Court Judge Clement Phiri…

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First Amendment

Cop Rains Threats and Profanity on Driver Who Had the Gall to Honk at Him for Failing to Budge at a Green Light

Tom Finkel/November 10, 2017November 30, 2017

As if the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department didn’t already suffer from an egregious-enough image problem, we have a report from the city’s weekly Riverfront Times about a cop who unleashed a profanity-laced tirade upon a law-abiding (albeit horn-honking) citizen. Bonus:…

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screenshot of Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, taken from Columbia University College Republicans homepage
Campus Speech, First Amendment, Required Reading

Columbia University Black Students’ Organization Seeks to Censor College Republicans

Stephen Lemons/November 9, 2017February 21, 2018

If heckling fails, hit ’em where it really hurts: the wallet. As Reason.com reports, that’s the strategy of the Columbia University Black Students’ Organization (BSO), which aims to silence the school’s College Republicans chapter and stop them from inviting squawkers of…

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Backpage, First Amendment, Media, Section 230, Sex Trafficking

Tech Giants Abandon Section 230 Ship, Endorse SESTA Compromise That Imperils Internet Freedom

Stephen Lemons/November 8, 2017February 27, 2018

One thing you can say about the Internet Association, which reps such tech-industry giants as Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter: It ain’t Captain Smith on the Titanic. In other words, it isn’t going down with the ship. At least not willingly. On…

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Facebook profile photo of Martha O'Donovan, 25, with a big smile, dressed in sweater, grasping a scarf around her neck
Freedom of Speech, Media, Required Reading

American Journalist Martha O’Donovan Jailed for ‘Insulting’ Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Twitter

Stephen Lemons/November 6, 2017November 30, 2017

If you need another reason to be thankful for the First Amendment, look no further than the tale of Martha O’Donovan, a 25-year-old American journalist and activist recently jailed in Zimbabwe for allegedly insulting that nation’s corrupt dictator on Twitter….

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photo of Eric Goldman, an internet law expert who spoke to FrontPage Confidential about the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) and threats to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Media, News, Section 230

Internet Law Scholar Eric Goldman Discusses the Inevitability of SESTA and Further Erosion of Section 230

Stephen Lemons/November 3, 2017February 27, 2018

Technology law expert Eric Goldman, one of the most ardent foes of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA), explained in a recent interview with FrontPage Confidential that he now believes Congressional passage of SESTA is as inevitable as…

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           Required Reading

  1. Lacey/Larkin Statement on Trial
  2. Major Points on Lacey/Larkin Case 
  3. The Senate Accused Them of Selling Kids for Sex. The FBI Raided Their Homes. Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time., Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason, 8/21/18.
  4. The War on Backpage.com Is a War on Sex Workers, 38-minute Reason documentary, 6/26/19.
  5. Seventh Circuit Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner’s decision in Backpage v. Dart,11/30/15.
  6. Inside Backpage’s Vicious Battle With the Feds, Christine Biederman, WIRED cover story, 6/18/19.
  7. Feds Bungled Preservation of Server Evidence in U.S. v. Lacey and Larkin, Front Page Confidential, 10/8/2019.
  8. Real Men Get Their Facts Straight, The Village Voice, 6/29/11.
  9. How John and Cindy McCain Came to Hate Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, Front Page Confidential, 9/17/18.
  10. Backpage’s Victories in Federal and State Courts, Front Page Confidential, July 11, 2022

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