The Backpage co-founders’ defense team has successfully fought the prosecution’s heavy-handed focus on child sex trafficking. In a surprise twist, Backpage co-founders have scored a
An Aug 17 trial is scheduled in Phoenix for Michael Lacey and James Larkin, the founders of Backpage.com, on charges they knowingly published prostitution ads and
A federal judge refused to dismiss a 100-count indictment against the creators of Backpage.com on Thursday, finding the indictment “goes through a long and fact-specific description of the defendants participation in a conspiracy to facilitate and promote prostitution,.”
Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn is using powers recently granted to his office in a bid to dissolve the legal entities behind Backpage.com – a classified advertising
This article from the San Francisco Chronicle contains few surprises to readers of MikeSouth.com, but it’s a riveting look at the devastation wrought by the
A tentative trial date has been set for two founders and five employees of Backpage.com in a case in which the classified advertising website has
This is an excellent piece on the post-Backpage / post-FOSTA world by April Glaser. I’ve excepted two bits here, and encourage readers to follow the link
Phoenix, Ariz.. — James Larkin, co-founder of Backpage.com, was released on a $1 million bond Monday. He had been jailed for the last 10 days on
Carl Ferrer, chief executive of Backpage.com, which was seized by the federal government one week ago, pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges in California and Texas, and
SESTA claims to be about stopping sex trafficking. In fact, the name of the full bill is Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (or SESTA for
If current law is adequate to seize website Backpage.com, why the hell do we need the grievous overreach of FOSTA / SESTA? WASHINGTON, D.C. –
The anti-sex work brigade told us the draconian FOSTA-SESTA is needed to protect victims of sex trafficking. However, an order issued March 29 by United
Over the past two years I’ve been watching this unfold and can’t say I’m surprised charges came about. Given the number of legislators behind inquiries into Backpage.com business practices it
Carlisle Elementary School teacher Amy Bedwell Sudberry, cleared of all charges. A grand jury refused to indict the elementary school teacher and her husband on,
It sucks to log onto social media and see everyone — including people you admire — celebrating someone or something you know directly or indirectly
A new research study about the consequences of FOSTA/SESTA, the 2018 law that was supposedly meant to curtail online sex trafficking, confirms that the effect of
The escorting business, specific to porn stars has become a real shit show lately. Especially when it comes to dealing with shady people like Trinity
We at MikeSouth.com are always grateful for the news tips we receive from our fine readers. Sometimes, though, the news is quite sad. We received
“For sex workers, the ongoing fight against stigmatization and criminalization is life or death,” writes Gaby Del Valle in a powerful essay. “If SESTA and FOSTA
From Emily Witt’s excellent New Yorker essay, “After the Closure of Backpage, Increasingly Vulnerable Sex Workers Are Demanding Their Rights”, published Friday. On a
Today, June 2, sex workers and their allies dressed in red and marched through cities across the Unitred States. The rallies came in recognition of
After more than a month offline, the popular sexual services website USASexGuide has returned. The site temporarily suspended operations last month after President Trump signed the FOSTA legislation into law, The
O.School set out to be an inclusive sex ed platform, writes Megan Farokhmanesh at The Verge, but now the misguided anti-trafficking law FOSTA and internal strife are
Citing the signing of the FOSTA bill into law, USASexGuide, a multi-city bulletin board offering, as XBIZ elegantly phrases it, “forum categories that mirror the full spectrum
The attacks on the Women’s March demonstrate that the most putrid pearl clutching about sex work comes, once again, from the left. If you’re a
The following announcement appeared on the homepage of TheEroticReview.com, a.k.a. ‘TER’, Friday — the same day the the feds seized Backpage.com — stating that the
Craigslist announced last week that it would cease hosting personal ads of any kind, in response to FOSTA (a.k.a. FOSTA-SESTA), a bill allegedly designed to
