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Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Section 230

Senate Judiciary Hearing on Pro-Censorship EARN IT Act Ignores Free Speech, First Amendment Concerns

Stephen Lemons/March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 /Leave a comment

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…

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Media, Required Reading, Section 230

How SESTA Poses an Existential Threat to Wikipedia

Stephen Lemons/November 15, 2017November 30, 2017 /2 Comments

Being against the nonprofit online encyclopedia Wikipedia is like being against NPR, used book stores, frozen Snickers bars, rainbow-striped over-the-knee toe socks, and the Muppets. So it would stand to reason that threatening to do harm to the free, near-fathomless…

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Backpage, First Amendment, Media, Section 230, Sex Trafficking

Tech Giants Abandon Section 230 Ship, Endorse SESTA Compromise That Imperils Internet Freedom

Stephen Lemons/November 8, 2017February 27, 2018

One thing you can say about the Internet Association, which reps such tech-industry giants as Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter: It ain’t Captain Smith on the Titanic. In other words, it isn’t going down with the ship. At least not willingly. On…

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           Required Reading

  1. Judge Declares Mistrial in Lacey/Larkin Case,Front Page Confidential, 9/14/21
  2. Backpage’s Victories in Federal and State Courts, FPC, July 11, 2022
  3. Lawyers, Guns, and Money (And to Hell with Free Speech), Michael Lacey’s column about the FBI raid on his home, FPC, 11/5/18
  4. 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.
  5. The War on Backpage.com Is a War on Sex Workers, 38-minute Reason documentary, 6/26/19.
  6. Seventh Circuit Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner’s decision in Backpage v. Dart,11/30/15
  7. Inside Backpage’s Vicious Battle With the Feds, Christine Biederman, WIRED cover story, 6/18/19.
  8. Feds Bungled Preservation of Server Evidence in U.S. v. Lacey and Larkin, Front Page Confidential, 10/8/2019.
  9. Real Men Get Their Facts Straight, The Village Voice, 6/29/11.
  10. How John and Cindy McCain Came to Hate Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, Front Page Confidential, 9/17/18.

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