During a two-hour pretrial hearing in downtown Phoenix on Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Susan M. Brnovich swatted away prosecutors’ efforts to sanction the defense team over allegations that ex-Backpage owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin disclosed sensitive government documents…
As ex-Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, once remarked, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Following this classy dictum in the wake of the El Paso tragedy, Trump has vowed to rein in violent video games, Democrats have revived plans…
It’s no country for old men. Or young men. Or any man. It’s the People’s Republic of Berkeley, California, where the city council recently played thought police and officially banished gender from all of its public documents. No more he/she…
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…
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…
Four national non-profits dedicated to protecting civil liberties and personal freedom in the United States have lodged proposed amicus briefs with the federal court in Phoenix in support of a recent motion to dismiss by defendants in the Backpage case….
Not a day goes by that an obtuse politician, academic or talking head is not screeching for Facebook, Twitter or some other social media platform to remove content that someone, somewhere finds objectionable. The latest object of establishment ire? The…
Talk about a wake-up call. Journalists caught a cattle-prod to the shorts Thursday as the Justice Department announced a new indictment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on 17 counts of the U.S. Espionage Act. The charges were added to one…
It’s the Tweet that launched a gazillion snarky comments. On Friday, May 10, actress and lefty activist Alyssa Milano took to social media to urge a #SexStrike by the nation’s cisgender heterosexual females as a protest against draconian, state anti-abortion…
