With GPS monitors on their ankles, their assets frozen, and the federal government aiming to put them in prison for the rest of their lives, Backpage’s co-founders, veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, remain as defiant as ever in…
Despite an astronomical increase in federal funding to state and local law enforcement agencies to combat human trafficking, a report released on June 20 by the U.S. State Department shows a relatively low number of cases investigated for the crime,…
In an exhaustive, 8,000 word feature for the July/August issue of WIRED, investigative reporter Christine Biederman profiles former Backpage owners and veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, explaining the First Amendment implications of their prosecution by the U.S. Department…
It’s a testament to the moral duplicity of our age that Amazon.com’s customers can purchase such rousing examples of cinéma vérité as California Gangbang Sluts and Dude, Your Mom Did Porn, while the gatekeepers of this discriminating internet bazaar catch a case…
Like a female samurai of the Kill Bill variety, investigative journalist Violet Blue eviscerates the self-serving anti-sex trafficking industry in a recent report for Engadget that leaves Ashton Kutcher’s secretive nonprofit, Thorn, with an epic, intestines-baring belly wound. In “Sex,…
Google took another great leap forward Wednesday with an expanded hate speech policy for its subsidiary YouTube that targets abhorrent, far-right speech. It’s the latest purge from a social media colossus aimed at cleansing the internet of what many consider…
