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Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
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#52Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
#53> The first [trial], in 2021, was declared a mistrial after prosecutors and their witnesses couldn't stop talking about sex trafficking despite none of the defendants facing sex trafficking charges Thats always been my take on the backpage case, but I didnt feel comfortable talking about it because people are too emotionally invested in curbing sex trafficking We’d be better off just treating it as labor trafficking,…
Estimated no one cares about labor trafficking. They care about other people having sex.
The irony of this being Arizona we're talking about and the significant contribution of illegal immigrants to the state economy.
Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
#54Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
#55Good. 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 jail time in the case of prostitution or losing the ability to reproduce or one's life in the case of eliminating the possibility of emergency abortions. Most of America: "The Bible says..."
Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
#56Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
#57Earlier 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…
What is this "nuttier" site you're talking about? Do you mean https://frontpageconfidential.com/aboutfpc/ , the site run by Lacey and Larkin and their fellow journalists, in order to defend themselves?
Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
#58Re: Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Estimated no one cares about labor trafficking. They care about other people having sex.
The irony of this being Arizona we're talking about and the significant contribution of illegal immigrants to the state economy.
Why is that ironic? Of course nobody will care about stopping labor trafficking if it benefits them.