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7 Dec, 33 tweets, 16 min read
It's the 2nd-to-last day of the @reason webathon! reason.com/donate/

To help persuade you to help us out, here's a thread of 21 reasons why you should support Reason magazine's journalism work as we head into 2021...
1. Because we're a home for talented misfit writers to do interesting work! This year we’ve run stories by @katrinagulliver @FreeRangeKids @sghorwitz @JillianKeenan @hallielieberman @jessesingal @katrosenfield @bonniekristian @kittypurrzog @maxg_econ @TanaGaneva to name a few
2. Because we refuse to traffic in Drug War propaganda (or let others get away with it). For instance, reason.com/2020/09/17/is-…
&
reason.com/2020/11/23/the…
3. Because we actually understand Section 230 reason.com/2020/10/06/don…  … and want others to, too!
4. Because we distrust the FBI no matter who is in the White House reason.com/2020/02/19/the…
5. Because @cjciaramella won’t stop insisting on the apparently radical idea that people in jails/prisons deserve humane treatment & civil liberties reason.com/2020/12/15/jai…
6. Because we’re not afraid to stick up for groups of people that others won’t reason.com/2020/03/01/the…

reason.com/2020/01/18/sex…
7. Because we’ll keep calling out the right and the left for their war on porn & sex workers
reason.com/2020/02/06/the…

reason.com/2020/02/01/how…
8. Because we’re not afraid to call out Peter Thiel reason.com/2020/08/02/wai…
9. Because we stand with people protesting police brutality reason.com/2020/09/26/sto…

reason.com/2020/09/27/res…

reason.com/2020/08/07/jo-…
10. Because we refuse to buy bullshit from Trump, Biden, or anyone else about how free speech online needs to be reigned in reason.com/2020/05/28/tru…
11. Because we won’t stop paying attention to FOSTA, or the Backpage prosecution, or attacks on massage parlors even after the rest of the media has run error-filled missives and moved on reason.com/2020/09/03/fos…

reason.com/2020/09/25/flo…

reason.com/2020/10/30/jud…
12. Because we don’t let @HawleyMO get away with self-serving lies reason.com/2020/07/14/sen…
(12.5 Because @billybinion made this amazing image: reason.com/2020/05/12/sen…)
13. Because we think masks can be a symbol of privacy and personal responsibility, not just tyranny reason.com/2020/05/05/mas…
14. Because we take the COVID-19 pandemic seriously while still thinking critically & doing research reason.com/2020/04/25/no-…
15. Because we’re not fooled when folks slap a progressive-sounding name on policies that harm women, harm minorities, and expand the reach of the carceral state reason.com/2020/10/29/joe…
16. Because we see through the new “Big Tech” trustbusters reason.com/2020/11/18/the…
17. Because we let you know how @reason staffers voted in 2020 (and do every presidential election year) reason.com/2020/10/12/how…
18. Because we know that weakening encryption is never the answer reason.com/2020/10/28/nee…
19. Because we have no patience with people who think that classical liberalism’s time is up reason.com/2020/09/08/wil…
20. Because of mini-docs like these from @PaulDetrick & Qinling Li...
* The Reawakening of the Black Gun-Rights Movement - reason.com/video/2020/10/…


* OnlyFans Didn't Save Sex Workers, Sex Workers Saved Themselves
* Meet the Trans Activists Fighting for Sex Worker Freedom -


* Kamala Harris' Dishonest Campaign To Destroy Backpage.com - reason.com/video/2020/08/…
21. Because @reason gives me the resources & support to keep reporting on the intersection of sex, speech, tech, justice, politics, & panic year in and year out!

Here are a few pieces I'm glad I've been able to put out into the world this year:
People Stuck at Home Are Making and Watching Porn. Everybody Panic! reason.com/2020/04/24/peo…
Massage Parlor Panic: A potent combination of puritanism, racism, and political opportunism is putting Asian masseuses and the people who support them in needless danger - reason.com/2020/02/02/mas…
Democrats Hate Facebook. Republicans Want To Ban TikTok. The Bipartisan Backlash Against Big Tech Is Here and It's a Disaster.
reason.com/2020/08/13/dem…
ICE Agents Fight Sex Trafficking by Paying Potential Victims for Hand Jobs
reason.com/2020/05/14/ice…
* @RoKhanna Hopes This Bill Will Pave the Way to Repealing FOSTA reason.com/2019/12/05/ro-…
* What the Porn Industry Thinks of the New War on Porn -
reason.com/2020/01/31/wha…
* Mike Godwin (@sfmnemonic), the Creator of Godwin's Law, Is Suing Trump Over His TikTok Executive Order - reason.com/2020/08/24/mik…
* A "Red State COVID vs. Blue State COVID" dialogue w/@lizzywol reason.com/2020/11/17/red…
Reason is a nonprofit, which means we're supported by donations, not advertising. If you like some of the articles above & want more like them, please consider making a (tax-deductible) donation to @reason during our webathon today or tomorrow! 💛💛💛💛💛 reason.com/donate/

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown Profile picture
7 Dec
CNN was one of the biggest spreaders of this erroneous story about "sex trafficking" in Florida and never issued a correction. Instead, they're doubling down on the fake news cnn.com/videos/us/2020…
CNN was also an enthusiastic spreader of this story about Josh Hawley & sex trafficking at massage parlors that turned out to be totally false. (@CNN never issued a correction here either). Do the folks there literally never learn???? reason.com/2020/07/14/sen…
What makes @CNN so invested in this fake massage parlor sex trafficking narrative, that they're willing to keep repeating despite boatloads of evidence to the contrary? And why do people treat this as somehow different than QAnon......?
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown Profile picture
3 Dec
imagine looking at these faces & feeling reassured
Bizarre how many responses to this assume I’m a Trump fan (and an anti vaxxer). As if it’s not possible to just reject fawning over any damn president
Also I refuse to participate in the chummy rehabilitation of George W Bush for godsake people
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2 Dec
While charges against Robert Kraft were dismissed, an immigrant masseuse accused of giving him a handjob has to pay $31,573 and spend a year on probation reason.com/2020/12/02/flo…
"Soliciting another to commit prostitution" cases against Kraft & other men were (rightfully) dismissed in Sept.

The three women from the spa they patronized were just sentenced
No one was ever charged with human trafficking.

In fact, women providing massages & sex acts—the group authorities said they were in it to rescue—faced the most severe charges & were the only ones ultimately convicted in this "human trafficking" bust reason.com/2020/12/02/flo…
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown Profile picture
2 Dec
They invoked the magic words "sex trafficking" & made a special Section 230 carve out....

And most people in media & tech policy were OK with it bc they a) are cowards who will never question anything about "trafficking" & b) don't care about & didn't listen to sex workers
There were about six people in tech & media saying HEY FOSTA IS A TEST CASE. BACKPAGE IS A TEST CASE. But even @TechFreedom was like "Well, if we just let them shit on Backpage and on sex workers, maybe they'll leave Section 230 alone otherwise...."
It was a cowardly, immoral bargain and also an incredibly naive & foolish assessment of the gov't & tech landscape. And they were all clearly and very very very very wrong.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown Profile picture
18 Nov
"170 arrested in human trafficking operation!"

<police report shows nothing but prostitution arrests>
miamiherald.com/news/state/flo…
Anatomy of Fake News: Notice that @MiamiHerald doesn't both listing what charges were brought in this "human trafficking" bust, just puts up a big dramatic headline and a lot of fluff about the "signs" of trafficking and then some police reports showing prostitution arrests...
This is not journalism, @MiamiHerald @howardcohen, this is copy-pasting a police press release miamiherald.com/news/state/flo…
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23 Sep
Since Cindy McCain is in the news again.... let’s look back at a few of her greatest hits though, yeah?
This is a good overview of Cindy McCain’s life’s work & the “human rights” foundation she & John ran reason.com/2017/06/20/cin…
And here’s a look at what Cindy McCain has been up to more recently reason.com/2019/02/07/mcc…
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