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Facebook Won’t Protect Your Privacy. Here’s How to Do It Yourself.

FPConfidential/March 22, 2018March 23, 2018 /Leave a comment

In twinned stories posted over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend, the London Guardian and the New York Times dropped a bombshell that reverberated on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2014, they reported, the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had surreptitiously acquired information from the personal…

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First Amendment, Hate Speech, Privacy

Gersh v. Anglin: Can the First Amendment Shelter a Troll Storm?

Alex F. Levy/January 11, 2018February 21, 2018 /Leave a comment

A few weeks after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, alt-right luminary Richard Spencer delivered a celebratory address at the National Policy Institute’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” Spencer chanted to rousing…

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Censorship, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, News, Privacy

NYC Bombing Fallout: Did Andrew Cuomo Just Call on ISPs to Become Spies and/or Censors?

Stephen Lemons/December 12, 2017 /Leave a comment

In response to Monday’s botched subway bombing in Manhattan, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared to implicate the internet. Pointing out that internet service providers have the technology to track user behavior, Cuomo left hanging in the air the question…

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Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Media, Privacy, Required Reading

China Tightens ‘Great Firewall’ by Blocking Skype

Stephen Lemons/November 27, 2017November 30, 2017 /Leave a comment

The People’s Republic of China’s crackdown on the video- and phone-chat app Skype offers further evidence of what some call China’s “Great Firewall” of censorship. On November 21, the New York Times reported that Apple had eliminated Skype from its app…

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Media, Privacy, Required Reading

Facebook Knows Your Darkest Secret (And It’s About to Tell Your Friends)

Alex F. Levy/October 27, 2017November 30, 2017

People’s standards of privacy vary, both online and off. Facebook offers a variety of choices in this regard: You may, for instance, keep your family photos off-limits to the general public or specifically block your nonconfrontational, sports-loving cousins from reading your latest…

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  1. Lacey/Larkin Statement on Trial
  2. Major Points on Lacey/Larkin Case 
  3. The Senate Accused Them of Selling Kids for Sex. The FBI Raided Their Homes. Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time., Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason, 8/21/18.
  4. The War on Backpage.com Is a War on Sex Workers, 38-minute Reason documentary, 6/26/19.
  5. Seventh Circuit Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner’s decision in Backpage v. Dart,11/30/15.
  6. Inside Backpage’s Vicious Battle With the Feds, Christine Biederman, WIRED cover story, 6/18/19.
  7. Feds Bungled Preservation of Server Evidence in U.S. v. Lacey and Larkin, Front Page Confidential, 10/8/2019.
  8. Real Men Get Their Facts Straight, The Village Voice, 6/29/11.
  9. How John and Cindy McCain Came to Hate Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, Front Page Confidential, 9/17/18.
  10. Backpage’s Victories in Federal and State Courts, Front Page Confidential, July 11, 2022

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