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Backpage, Censorship, Cindy McCain, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Jim Larkin, John McCain, Kamala Harris, Michael Lacey, Opinion, Opinion/Analysis, Section 230, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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On April 6, 2018, the U.S. government set a disturbing precedent in the annals of modern censorship by arresting award-winning newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin and taking down Backpage.com, a classified ads site that reportedly served almost 1,000 cities…

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Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Kamala Harris, Michael Lacey, Opinion/Analysis, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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The most dangerous place in the world for a hypocrite or any other kind of phony is in Elizabeth Nolan Brown‘s sights.  A senior editor at the libertarian magazine Reason, Brown vivisects bad ideas and politicians like a coroner on crack….

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Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Kamala Harris, News, Opinion/Analysis, Section 230, Sex Trafficking, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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On Friday, the New York Daily News published a glowing, error-filled preview of former California prosecutor and failed Sacramento County DA candidate Maggy Krell’s book Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker, which is scheduled to drop Jan….

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Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Kamala Harris, News, Opinion, Opinion/Analysis, Section 230, Sex Work, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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Your taxes at work: Kamala Harris’s fave cop, California DOJ agent Brian Fichtner, spent around two days last week in the Lacey/Larkin trial reading saucy language and eyeballing naked and semi-naked ladies who allegedly once appeared in the Sacramento escorts…

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Censorship, Cindy McCain, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, John McCain, Kamala Harris, News, Required Reading, Section 230, U.S. DOJ, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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MAJOR POINTS Michael Lacey, Jim Larkin and four codefendants currently face 100 counts including the following: facilitating misdemeanor state prostitution offenses in violation of the U.S. Travel Act; money laundering; conspiracy to commit money laundering; and conspiracy to facilitate misdemeanor…

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Backpage, Censorship, Cindy McCain, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, John McCain, Kamala Harris, News, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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As journalists and publishers with more than 40 years of experience in the business of news, we firmly believe our prosecution represents epic government overreach and an unprecedented assault on the First Amendment and freedom of speech. On April 6,…

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Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Kamala Harris, News, Section 230, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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In a motion filed Tuesday in federal court in Phoenix, the government asserts that attorneys for Village Voice Media (VVM), the 17-paper alt-media chain once co-owned by veteran newsmen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, advised VVM that the Craigslist-inspired classified…

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Backpage, Cindy McCain, First Amendment, John McCain, Kamala Harris, News, Section 230, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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On Saturday, August 29, the Los Angeles Press Club honored video journalist Paul Detrick of Reason magazine for his brilliant, 2019 documentary, The War on Backpage.com Is a War on Sex Workers, awarding it second place for best investigative journalism…

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Backpage, Kamala Harris, News, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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Libertarians have stones the size of Mount Rushmore when it comes to championing civil liberties, challenging police power and battling government overreach. Such subjects used to be the purview of true-blue liberals, but too often these days, social justice warrior-ing…