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Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, News, Opinion/Analysis, Section 230, Sex Work

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In a recent column, longtime Arizona Republic columnist E.J. Montini cited a 2021 report from the U.S. Governmental Accountability Office (GAO), which found that the 2018 takedown of Backpage had the opposite of its intended effect: it made it more…

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Backpage, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, News, Sex Work, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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The mendacity of the federal government’s prosecution of award-winning journalists Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin knows no bounds. With less than a month before Lacey and Larkin’s Aug. 23 trial on allegations that they facilitated prostitution due to their former…