How did Phoenix’s paper of record, the Arizona Republic, get so many things wrong about the Super Bowl/sex trafficking panic in its recent reporting on the topic? In the days leading up to Super Bowl LVII, the paper casually conflated…
Defense attorneys in the Lacey/Larkin trial fought like feral bobcats on Friday to block inflammatory testimony from a woman trafficked as a teen and advertised in adult ads posted by herself and pimps to the now-defunct classified-listings site, Backpage.com. Federal…
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…
Who’s afraid of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein? Google, for one. In a Cato Institute opinion piece, John Samples, the libertarian think tank’s vice president, lambastes the tech giant for engaging in “censorship.” Samples says Google buckled to pressure from California’s senior…
Right-wing radio blowhard Dennis Prager’s imaginatively named Prager University (a.k.a. PragerU) filed suit in federal court against YouTube on October 23, claiming the Google-owned platform is censoring the conservative nonprofit’s five-minute videos because of the reactionary viewpoints they convey. But in the…
As the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA) wends through Congress, technology-law professor Eric Goldman is the modern-day equivalent of Cassandra warning her fellow Trojans about the wisdom of keeping that big wooden horse around. In Greek mythology, Cassandra was cursed…
