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A former executive and two operations managers for classified site Backpage.com worked vigorously to keep the platform free of ads for prostitution even as strategies on how to do so constantly ...
Backpage. Backpage.com was a classified advertising website founded in 2004 by the alternative newspaper chain New Times Inc./. New Times Media (later known as Village Voice Media or VVM) as a rival to Craigslist. [ 1] Similar to Craigslist, Backpage let users post ads to categories such as personals, automotive, rentals, jobs and adult services.
The unsealed indictment lays out details concerning 17 alleged victims, including adults & minors as young as 14 years old, who were trafficked on the site. Backpage.com founders, five others ...
Publisher/Journalist. Known for. Chairman/CEO of Village Voice Media (VVM) James Anthony Larkin (June 16, 1949 – July 31, 2023) was an American publisher and journalist in Phoenix, Arizona, known for his influence in the alternative newspaper industry. He was largely responsible, along with business partner Michael Lacey, for his work with ...
Michael G. Lacey (born July 30, 1948) is an Arizona-based journalist, editor, publisher and First Amendment advocate. He is the founder and former executive editor of the Phoenix New Times, which he and his business partner, publisher Jim Larkin, expanded into a nationwide chain of 17 alternative weeklies, known as Village Voice Media (VVM). [1]
The unsealed indictment lays out details concerning 17 alleged victims, including adults & minors as young as 14 years old, who were trafficked on the site. Backpage.com founders, five others ...
v. t. e. Sex trafficking in the United States is a form of human trafficking which involves reproductive slavery or commercial sexual exploitation as it occurs in the United States. Sex trafficking includes the transportation of persons by means of coercion, deception and/or force into exploitative and slavery-like conditions. [ 1]
How the Backpage prosecution helped create a playbook for suppressing online speech, debanking disfavored groups, and using "conspiracy" charges to imprison the government's targets