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…
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…
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…
If all reporters and politicians could be bound to a chair, their eyelids pinned back, a la Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange, and repeatedly forced to watch John Stossel‘s recent video for Reason on the “Moral Panic over Sex…
Give Arizona’s brewski queen her due, Cindy McCain knows how to goose a yarn, even when the tale’s taller than the Philadephia ’76ers’ Serbian center Boban Marjanovic. During an interview with Washington Post reporter Roxanne Roberts for a glowing profile…
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…
