So what do you do if you believe Facebook is “shredding the fabric of our democracy” and Mark Zuckerberg is a guy who maybe should face criminal prosecution? If you’re Joe Biden’s campaign, you write Zuck a check for more…
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…
Ruling strictly on procedural grounds, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently dismissed a challenge to the federal government’s seizure of millions of dollars in assets belonging to longtime publishers and journalists Michael Lacey and Jim…
There are two things one can be certain of when it comes to the intense media speculation over Joe Biden’s pending choice of a running mate: Kamala Harris desperately wants the gig; and the press would love to crown her…
If you believe in freedom of speech, internet privacy, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, and other such rights and privileges, the Democrats are not your friends, as they proved recently in the Senate Judiciary Committee, where they helped green-light…
Reason magazine’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown is the Conor McGregor of Twitter cage fights. Step into the octagon with her, and you’re guaranteed to wake up the next morning nursing your fractured ego, as Josh Hawley, Missouri’s junior U.S. Senator, can…
During a two-hour hearing held on March 11 in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on pro-censorship, encryption-busting legislation known as the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act (EARN IT Act), there was no real discussion of the…
In an ironic, man-bites-dog moment, the Radio Television Digital News Foundation (RTDNF), a non-profit trade organization, bestowed its 2020 “First Amendment Defender Award” to U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut on March 5, the same day Blumenthal and fellow sponsors…
Some of the best work on the sex trafficking panic was done in 2011/2012 as part of an investigative series by Village Voice Media (VVM), an alt-weekly chain founded in 1970 with the publication of what became known as the…
On the same day members of Congress proposed legislation to study the effects of FOSTA/SESTA, the 2018 law that outlawed adult ads online and placed sex workers in harm’s way, around 30 sex workers, activists and allies assembled at a…
