Reason’s New Documentary on Backpage.com Is Streaming Exclusively on CiVL
On Wednesday, August 28, 2024, the veteran newspaper editor Michael Lacey walked into a federal courthouse in Phoenix to face sentencing for one count of international concealment money laundering. Federal prosecutors were seeking 20 years, which would have kept Lacey locked up until he was 96. It was an unfortunate milestone in an eight-year legal saga with broad implications both for free speech and for the sex work industry.
Lacey’s sentencing is the final scene in Classified: The War on Backpage, a new 42-minute documentary film produced by Reason, directed by Paul Detrick, and reported by Elizabeth Nolan Brown, now streaming exclusively at CiVL. It ties together Brown’s years of reporting on the government’s case against the online classified site—a legal crusade led in its early stages by former California Attorney General Kamala Harris.
We’re thrilled to be premiering this film on CiVL, a new nonprofit streaming platform whose mission is to promote freedom and human respect by presenting films, shows, and debates. It’s exciting to see Classified become part of CiVL’s curated library of thought-provoking films, and we see this partnership as a way to build new audiences for our marquee documentaries.Â
CiVL is free to join, and you can use your login to sign in with apps (iOS, Android, Roku, Fire TV) or to watch on the web. (Download CiVL’s apps here.) You can also catch other Reason shows, documentaries, comedy pieces, and Soho Forum debates while you’re there.
You can watch Classified: The War On Backpage here.Â
The film chronicles Backpage’s legal troubles, starting with accusations by Harris and others that it facilitated sex trafficking, despite evidence of its efforts to assist the F
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