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Richard Blumenthal
Censorship, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Media, News, Opinion/Analysis, Section 230, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work

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U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut combines the worst characteristics of Cotton Mather, Girolamo Savonarola and the Rev. Jerry Falwell — Senior, not Junior. The 76-year-old Democrat’s persistent, self-righteous efforts to censor the internet, using “the kids” as his rallying…

Monica Jones
First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, News, Opinion, Opinion/Analysis, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work

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At the first glimpse of anti-sex work researcher Dominique Roe-Sepowitz on screen, a round of boos erupted from the audience at Tucson’s Screening Room on Friday, where they were watching a preview of director PJ Starr‘s upcoming documentary, Manifesting Monica…

Cato the Younger
Backpage, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, News, Opinion, Opinion/Analysis, Section 230, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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The libertarian, free speech zealots at the Cato Institute have more than once come to the defense of the now-defunct classified listings site, Backpage.com, and its former owners, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, who along with four former executives and…

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

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The rare moments of levity during the half-hour session at the Ninth Circuit on Sept. 2 in the Lacey/Larkin appeal came at the government’s expense as litigators jousted before a three-judge panel at the James R. Browning United States Courthouse…

Statue of Greek God of Justice, themis
Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, News, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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Nearly a year since their first trial ended in a mistrial due to prosecutorial misconduct, storied newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin head to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on September 2, arguing that a retrial would…

Kamala Harris
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….