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Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts

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Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts

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Post by Niten »

brookst wrote: post #21
beaeglebeachh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And how is it money laundering if it turned out the money wasn't proceeds of crime.

I spent a few minutes trying to figure that out, but Reason is incredibly slanted, they just link to some even nuttier site, and even starting with news I couldn't find specifics of the one count he was convicted on. But I'd be a little skeptical of Reason's handwave "properly reported to the government". Reported on taxes? To SEC? As part of disclosure for this trial? One way it could be money laundering without bei…

Media Bias Fact Check ranks Reason as a "Right-Center" biased website with a "High" rating for factual reporting: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reason/

They certainly approach stories with an editorial perspective, but they're generally factually reliable and hardly "incredibly slanted".

Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts

#92

Post by ianhawes »

brookst wrote: post #21
beaeglebeachh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And how is it money laundering if it turned out the money wasn't proceeds of crime.

I spent a few minutes trying to figure that out, but Reason is incredibly slanted, they just link to some even nuttier site, and even starting with news I couldn't find specifics of the one count he was convicted on. But I'd be a little skeptical of Reason's handwave "properly reported to the government". Reported on taxes? To SEC? As part of disclosure for this trial? One way it could be money laundering without bei…

Reason would indeed seem slanted compared to traditional liberal media, specifically as it relates to not regurgitating the DOJ’s narrative.

Happy Reason subscriber here.

Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts

#93

Post by WorkerBee28474 »

hi-v-rocknroll wrote: post #55
huytersd wrote: post #22

Good. Prostitution should be legal and regulated to begin with. People are getting HIV at an alarming rate because the whole system is unregulated.

Raising HIV against prostitution is like bringing up animal cruelty for veganism: it's not really the most important of many overlapping concerns surrounding the issue. Anti-prostitution and anti-abortion laws in the US exist because evangelical Christian white supremacists are able to tell heathens what they can't do with their bodies and pass laws to force their views on other people. These come with the burdens of…

> evangelical Christian white supremacists

Ah yes, the ol' reliable 'everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi' approach

Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts

#94

Post by Retric »

Niten wrote: post #91
brookst wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent a few minutes trying to figure that out, but Reason is incredibly slanted, they just link to some even nuttier site, and even starting with news I couldn't find specifics of the one count he was convicted on. But I'd be a little skeptical of Reason's handwave "properly reported to the government". Reported on taxes? To SEC? As part of disclosure for this trial? One way it could be money laundering without bei…

Media Bias Fact Check ranks Reason as a "Right-Center" biased website with a "High" rating for factual reporting: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reason/ They certainly approach stories with an editorial perspective, but they're generally factually reliable and hardly "incredibly slanted".

Reason’s libertarian bias sits outside the mainstream Left-Right axis of US political discourse.

So what looks centrist or right leaning on a 2D scale is actually heavily biased in a different political direction.

Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts

#95

Post by yareal »

webspinner wrote: post #71
brookst wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent a few minutes trying to figure that out, but Reason is incredibly slanted, they just link to some even nuttier site, and even starting with news I couldn't find specifics of the one count he was convicted on. But I'd be a little skeptical of Reason's handwave "properly reported to the government". Reported on taxes? To SEC? As part of disclosure for this trial? One way it could be money laundering without bei…

Reason is not slanted. It's a very libertarian site and a lot of people come from the left.

All news media has a bias, it's literally impossible to serve a finite news set and not exert some editorial control. However, if you describe a news site as (very political ideology) I think it's fair to consider it slanted.

Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts

#96

Post by yareal »

Retric wrote: post #94
Niten wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Media Bias Fact Check ranks Reason as a "Right-Center" biased website with a "High" rating for factual reporting: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reason/ They certainly approach stories with an editorial perspective, but they're generally factually reliable and hardly "incredibly slanted".

Reason’s libertarian bias sits outside the mainstream Left-Right axis of US political discourse. So what looks centrist or right leaning on a 2D scale is actually heavily biased in a different political direction.

I don't think there's much Left in US politics, unless you mean in the language of US politics, where somehow Democrats are considered "Left".

Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts

#97

Post by dragonwriter »

webspinner wrote: post #71
brookst wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent a few minutes trying to figure that out, but Reason is incredibly slanted, they just link to some even nuttier site, and even starting with news I couldn't find specifics of the one count he was convicted on. But I'd be a little skeptical of Reason's handwave "properly reported to the government". Reported on taxes? To SEC? As part of disclosure for this trial? One way it could be money laundering without bei…

Reason is not slanted. It's a very libertarian site and a lot of people come from the left.

“libertarian” is as much of a slant as left or right is; that its largely orthogonal to the left/right axis, and lots of people think only in terms of that axis (on which Reason is clearly on the right, but not as far from center on that axis as it is on the libertarian one) doesn't change that.

Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts

#98

Post by yareal »

WorkerBee28474 wrote: post #93
hi-v-rocknroll wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Raising HIV against prostitution is like bringing up animal cruelty for veganism: it's not really the most important of many overlapping concerns surrounding the issue. Anti-prostitution and anti-abortion laws in the US exist because evangelical Christian white supremacists are able to tell heathens what they can't do with their bodies and pass laws to force their views on other people. These come with the burdens of…

> evangelical Christian white supremacists Ah yes, the ol' reliable 'everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi' approach

I think they described the situation fairly? The folks who legislate against sex work tend to tick most of those boxes.

Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts

#99

Post by Retric »

yareal wrote: post #96
Retric wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reason’s libertarian bias sits outside the mainstream Left-Right axis of US political discourse. So what looks centrist or right leaning on a 2D scale is actually heavily biased in a different political direction.

I don't think there's much Left in US politics, unless you mean in the language of US politics, where somehow Democrats are considered "Left".

Party stances are always going to reflect the country they operate in.

On an absolute scale Republican’s support for expanding Medicare drug coverage was left leaning compared to at the time current law even though it’s to the right of many countries and Democrat’s stance on the issue.

Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts

#100

Post by webspinner »

dragonwriter wrote: post #97
webspinner wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reason is not slanted. It's a very libertarian site and a lot of people come from the left.

“libertarian” is as much of a slant as left or right is; that its largely orthogonal to the left/right axis, and lots of people think only in terms of that axis (on which Reason is clearly on the right, but not as far from center on that axis as it is on the libertarian one) doesn't change that.

There's about a 50/50 split in the libertarian party so it really isn't. Actually, I would say most of the people there lean left, or center.
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