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Backpage: A Blueprint for Squelching Speech
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 1 month agoHow the Backpage prosecution helped create a playbook for suppressing online speech, debanking disfavored groups, and using "conspiracy" charges to...
2 Backpage execs found guilty on prostitution charges; another convicted of financial crime
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA federal jury found two former Backpage.com executives guilty of conspiring to use the website to...
Backpage Founder, Alt-Weekly Entrepreneur, and Free Speech Warrior James Larkin Has Died
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 10 months agoLarkin, 74, took his own life on Monday, just a little over a week before he was slated to stand...
Federal prosecutors want to retry former Phoenix journalist on prostitution charges related to...
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 5 months agoFederal prosecutors intend to retry Michael Lacey, the former editor of Phoenix New Times, on...
A website to promote prostitution, or fight it? Opening statements diverge at Backpage trial
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic· 9 months agoMichael Lacey, the former editor of the Phoenix tabloid New Times, was an old school newspaper man...
Backpage founder convicted of 1 count of money laundering. Arizona jury deadlocks on 84 other counts
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMichael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was convicted Thursday on a...
Backpage trial moves closer; Michael Lacey, others reject plea deals
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 10 months agoDays removed from the death of his longtime newspaper partner and co-defendant, former Phoenix New...
Backpage: The Monumental Free Speech Case the Media Ignored
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 7 months agoTing Shen - Pool via CNP/Newscom, Hector Amezcua/ZUMA Press/Newscom After a dozen years of legal...
The Backpage Defendants Never Stood a Chance
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 6 months agoLex Villena; Hector Amezcua/ZUMA Press/Newscom Eighty-six counts of criminal activity—that's what veteran journalist and publisher Michael Lacey faced in...
'They were prostitution ads': Backpage founder testifies website was used to sell sex
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 9 months agoOne of the founders of Backpage.com took the stand in federal court in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday...