Plus: Gabbard slams Harris' "political ploy," a fair use win for Vanity Fair and Andy Warhol, Hawaii decriminalizes marijuana, and more…
Plus: How the French could kill U.S. speech, do economic centrists exist?, and more...
Plus: Ashton Kutcher serves up "sex trafficking"-enabled surveillance, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio goes after soft serve, and more...
'We know what we want to do with our bodies, and we don't need government interference.'
"The victims are the sex workers…getting harassed and locked up in cages by the cops."
Police often accuse people of "sex trafficking." Usually, it’s simply prostitution.
The bill also targets strip clubs
Plus: the biggest trouble with Devin Nunes' Twitter lawsuit, the Senate fails to override Trump's Yemen veto, bad news for the gig economy, and more...
Did San Francisco really see a 170 percent "spike in human trafficking" last year?
Nonetheless, a judge will let a sex trafficking complaint against Weinstein proceed.
Plus: "content moderation laws are...not about punishing tech companies" and union fees have taken an astonishing hit.
Video evidence contradicted Santana Adams' account.
Plus: a Robert Kraft/spa-sting update, Florida sex-buyer registry nixed, D.C. activist alleges entrapment, and more sex-work and sex-policy news.
Whose hysteria looks silliest in retrospect?
Fake news is real. Momo is not.
We were told this sort of spying would only be used to stop terrorists. And yet...
Nine women face felony prostitution charges and hundreds of their customers have been arrested. Florida says it's the real victim.
"I think that we have to understand though that it is not as simple as that."
Authorities are walking back big claims about an international human-trafficking ring involving Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
It's also part of a larger national attack on massage parlors and sex workers.
As the lawsuit against FOSTA hits appeals court, three essays about the law that everyone should read.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown talks about DHS's "Blue Campaign," which is pushing hotel and airline workers to call the feds if they suspect human trafficking.
Plus: Lionel Shriver on cultural erasure and Stormy Daniels on strip-club labor laws
Plus: New York's CBD-foods crackdown, Laura Loomer gets booted from PayPayl, and more hits from last night's speech.
How big hotel chains became arms of the surveillance state.
The senator and presidential hopeful went to bat for dirty prosecutors, opposed marijuana legalization, and championed policies that endanger sex workers.
The Super Bowl is around the corner and a popular sex trafficking myth is back.
2018 was a mixed bag, but that means there was still a lot of good news.
A national strategy for arresting sex buyers and letting local cops wiretap sex workers are among the approved changes.
A Tucson Weekly investigation finds that federal funds to "fight sex trafficking" are actually perpetuating it.
Plus: Trump endorses sentencing reform and Bitcoin's value continues to fall.
How indie media entrepreneurs James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witchhunt.
The porn wars haven't died, they're just packaged differently.
The ruling is a major win for Backpage founders James Larkin and Michael Lacey, as well as a strike against government overreach.
Plus: fight against FOSTA continues and Tennessee trooper reports Democrat for visiting falafel restaurant.
Plus: why Gary Johnson will be good for the Senate, "toxic culture" at the TSA, the dismissal of an anti-FOSTA lawsuit, and a new economic freedom index.
The PATRIOT Act fell out of fashion-but swap "human trafficker" for "terrorist" and let the civil liberties infringements roll!
Activists petition to stop a sex-doll shop.
But the real problem here isn't human-trafficking troops, it's regulators raising crime panic.
Plus: Another one of NYU professor Avital Ronell's teaching assistants talks, and Tucker Carlson goes after Amazon.
Matt Welch interviews Brown (and others, including ex-Reasoner Lauren Krisai) from 9-12 ET.
An inside look at how indie media veterans James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witchhunt.
Plus: digital privacy concerns down 11 percent since 2015
Representatives of the oldest profession were on Capitol Hill fighting FOSTA and SESTA, with our online freedoms hanging in the balance.
Misleading claims about people smuggling serve only to justify the government's already bloated surveillance and law enforcement powers.
The Delaware Criminal Justice Council found it difficult to "justify the resources that have been expend on so few" participants with such a "low rate of success."
The federal charges against Mack highlight how human trafficking hysteria harms vulnerable women.
