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Backpage Founder, Alt-Weekly Entrepreneur, and Free Speech Warrior James Larkin Has Died:

Larkin, 74, took his own life on Monday, just a little over a week before he was slated to stand trial for his role in running the web-classifieds platform Backpage.

https://reason.com/2023/08/02/backpage-publisher-alt-weekly-entrepreneur-and-free-speech-warrior-james-larkin-has-died/


244 posted on 08/04/2023 12:46:17 PM PDT by Melian ( Reminder: Memes are made to make you think or laugh. Verify for yourself before reposting. )
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Hmm, Backpage was advertising all kinds of underage sex. And McNoName’s wife was supposedly running some kind of foundation or campaign to shut down Backpage, I think collecting donations for the cause, but oddly enough never made any progress towards shutting it down. Odd.....


246 posted on 08/04/2023 12:49:31 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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