Village Voice Media

First Amendment
Censorship, Cindy McCain, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, John McCain, Kamala Harris, News, Required Reading, Section 230, U.S. DOJ, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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MAJOR POINTS Michael Lacey, Jim Larkin and four codefendants currently face 100 counts including the following: facilitating misdemeanor state prostitution offenses in violation of the U.S. Travel Act; money laundering; conspiracy to commit money laundering; and conspiracy to facilitate misdemeanor…

Richard Ruelas
Backpage, Censorship, Cindy McCain, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, John McCain, News, Opinion, Sex Work, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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In hindsight, I should not be surprised by “reporter” Richard Ruelas’ shameful steaming pile of a hit piece in the Arizona Republic yesterday. After all, the first thing the Republic lifer did when veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin…

Moscow show trial
Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Kamala Harris, News, Section 230, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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In a motion filed Tuesday in federal court in Phoenix, the government asserts that attorneys for Village Voice Media (VVM), the 17-paper alt-media chain once co-owned by veteran newsmen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, advised VVM that the Craigslist-inspired classified…

Color photo of Cindy McCain standing at a McCain/Palin podium during a September 15, 2008, stop in Jacksonville, Florida, on the presidential campaign trail.
Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Free Speech Rattler, John McCain, Politics, Section 230, Sex Work, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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There was Cindy Lou McCain inside the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, draped over her husband’s casket. Her coifed head, a mother-of-pearl orb, rested, momentarily, upon the weeping box’s lid. My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar. The…