Can DHS Shoot Down Citizen Drones? House Votes Today: Reason Roundup
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.
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.
Wilson's passport was revoked following a warrant for his arrest in Texas for having paid sex with an underage girl.
But the real problem here isn't human-trafficking troops, it's regulators raising crime panic.
A 10-year veteran of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, Ortiz is also a "serial murderer" say Texas authorities.
An ex-NYPD detective allegedly used his knowledge of police procedure to keep the operation afloat.
Fun fact: All laws give government control of the decisions that everybody of any gender can do with their bodies.
Plus: Another one of NYU professor Avital Ronell's teaching assistants talks, and Tucker Carlson goes after Amazon.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown exposes the flimsy case against the alt-weekly pioneers accused of facilitating sex trafficking through Backpage.com.
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
Love Ranch, a brothel owned by Nevada Assembly candidate Dennis Hof, loses their brothel license.
Representatives of the oldest profession were on Capitol Hill fighting FOSTA and SESTA, with our online freedoms hanging in the balance.
...and reminds everyone that sometimes a strip show is just a strip show.
A new manifesto calls for sex-worker rights.
The LP's move comes the same week the Green Party explicitly rejected a platform that protects sex worker rights.
Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown on libertarian feminism, how to encrypt your email, and more
With the D.C. primary approaching, candidates are quizzed on a bill that would decriminalize prostitution in the district.
We offer how-tos, personal stories, and guides for all kinds of activities that can and do happen right at the borders of legally permissible behavior.
Tips, tricks, and common sense to make hiring an escort a breeze
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."
"Of course the voices of actual sex workers are nowhere to be found," says brothel worker and PhD student Christina Parreira.
The White Slavery Panic of the late 19th/early 20th centuries caused Congress to pass the vaguely-worded Mann Act. It allowed the FBI and prosecutors broad discretion to go after individuals they didn't like.
Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer turned over the company and seven other executives in exchange for leniency.
Indictment reveals money-laundering, conspiracy charges, and a tricky federal law known as the Travel Act.
Prodding private companies into self-censorship is a dangerous government tradition.
Site had long been a target for sex work and sex trafficking advertisements.
The ruling allows a civil suit against Backpage to proceed for one of the case's three plaintiffs.
The great content crackdown has begun.
The measure will "make it harder, not easier, to root out and prosecute sex traffickers," said Sen. Ron Wyden, one of only two senators to vote no on FOSTA.
Rep. Michelle DuBois wants to remove a statehouse sign that reads "General Hooker Entrance" because it is an affront to "women's dignity."
Device makers would be required to block porn, prostitution hubs, and all content that fails "current standards of decency."
Disney allegedly lobbied against the bill behind the scenes.
The bill makes "promoting prostitution" a federal crime, holds websites legally liable for user-posted content, and lets states retroactively prosecute offenders.
Meanwhile, drunk driving and vehicular assault by officers are not firing offenses in Hudson County.
Last year, Utah's Jon E. Stanard voted to raise the penalty for soliciting prostitution to $2,500. And this year...
"There is nothing inherent" to strip clubs "that causes crime," say city planners.
In a series of protests, strip club workers and their allies are pushing back against abusive policing.
Minneapolis is being transformed into a police state.
New technologies are helping the adult industry adjust to government regulations and give more power to performers.
They also arrested her younger friend for prostitution.
A large new study out of the U.K. proves it.
"There is no constitutional rights to engage in illegal employment," rules the 9th Circuit court.
Harris only cares about other women's rights when those rights don't conflict with her career ambitions.