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2 Backpage execs found guilty on prostitution charges; another convicted of financial crime
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 months agoA federal jury found two former Backpage.com executives guilty of conspiring to use the website to...
'They were prostitution ads': Backpage founder testifies website was used to sell sex
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOne of the founders of Backpage.com took the stand in federal court in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday...
Backpage trial moves closer; Michael Lacey, others reject plea deals
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 9 months agoDays removed from the death of his longtime newspaper partner and co-defendant, former Phoenix New...
Backpage: A Blueprint for Squelching Speech
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoHow the Backpage prosecution helped create a playbook for suppressing online speech, debanking disfavored groups, and using "conspiracy" charges to...
Federal prosecutors want to retry former Phoenix journalist on prostitution charges related to...
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFederal prosecutors intend to retry Michael Lacey, the former editor of Phoenix New Times, on...
The World's First Libertarian President
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 6 months agoLuciano Gonzalez Torres / Xinhua News Agency/Newscom In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and...
Backpage trial will continue next week despite James Larkin's sudden death
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe federal criminal trial of former executives and employees of the Backpage.com website, which prosecutors said was used to facilitate prostitution, will proceed as scheduled next week, despite ...
James Larkin, New Times and Backpage executive who faced charges of aiding prostitution, dead at 74
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic· 9 months agoJames Larkin, who helped turn the Phoenix alternative weekly New Times into a chain that took over the venerated Village Voice in New York, died by suicide Monday, days before a federal trial ...
Why Kamala Harris Won't Be Asked About the Suicide of a Newspaperman She Persecuted
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 9 months agoCourtesy of the Jim Larkin Family The sitting vice president, shortly before moving to Washington,...
This NRA Supreme Court Case Has Big Implications for Porn
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIllustration: Lex Villena Strange bedfellows make for good First Amendment warriors in a case...
