The story said a committee had already been formed to take up a collection to help Joe rebuild. On the cover a Fred McDarrah photograph of Joe Cino standing in the middle of his burned out coffeehouse at 31 Cornelia Street, where people were putting on plays as part of something called off-off Broadway. Folksingers in pass-the-basket coffeehouses, street vendors selling sausage sandwiches for a quarter, crowds of babes in long hair and tight skirts and leather sandals, each one more mysterious looking than the last.Īnd over there at the newsstand, a paper that told you all about it - The Village Voice. So we gave up on the mess in Flushing and rode the subway to the Village. The Worlds Fair was a bust – insane crowds, oppressive heat and a blazing sun, absolutely no shade, and everything cost five times what it did a subway ride away in the city. The World's Fair beckoned.įritz and I rode through eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey and took a little steel truss bridge over to the Fresh Kills area of Staten Island, rode across the island, took the ferry to Manhattan and rode uptown to 32 nd Street, where we scored two single rooms at the Y for 75 cents a night. Fritz took a Greyhound from Kansas to meet up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where we began our journey by first riding east to New York City. My parents started sending my brother Frank and me across the country on Greyhound buses when I was 12 and Frank was 10. I was 17, Fritz was 16, and while 10-speed bikes were brand new on the American scene, the idea of turning a couple of teenagers loose like that for a summer wasn’t. My friend Fritz Lash and I were riding our 10-speed bikes across the country. I got my start at the Village Voice more than 50 years ago, and I’ve never told that story, so just for you, just this one time, here it is. In this vast exchange of information, law enforcement agencies have asked for our testimony in precisely five underage cases.īecause one case is too many, we have, and we will continue to, cooperate willingly with authorities.The sad news last week that the venerable Village Voice will cease its newsprint edition and become an on-line only publication, not unlike Salon, brought back some memories.
In the last two years, has had 58 million posts, of which 6 million were adult. The responsibility, under the law, rests with the person supplying the post. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 recognized that the very nature of the Internet meant that vast traffic depended on the ability of citizens to post directly onto websites like, Facebook, MySpace or eBay, or to have search engines like Google and Yahoo find postings without pre-screening or censorship. We provided the FBI with the perpetrator's I.P. has stringent safeguards in place to ensure that only adults use the site. Without our knowledge, the predator violated our terms of use. The attorney seeks to redirect blame from a convicted predator to, which helped prosecute the criminal.
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The claim that we knowingly assisted in committing criminal acts is a lie fabricated by a trial lawyer looking for a payday. We've received a statement from Village Voice Media's Steve Suskind. In March the Village Voice's Foster Kamer made a penis joke about Jim Dolan, the evil… (via mediaite) Dick Joke Costs the Village Voice $1 Million in Advertising The Village Voice sure has been having a lot of penis-related financial troubles, lately. Look for anti-trafficking activists and Attorneys General, flush from their victory over Craigslist, to jump on Backpage and its thriving "adult" section next. "Defendant had a desire that these posters accomplished their nefarious illegal prostitution activities so that the posters would return to the website and pay for more posting." "Defendant had a strong suspicion that the aforementioned crimes were being committed," reads the complaint. This knowledge, the suit argues, should put exempt them from the Communications Decency Act, which protects websites from liability for what their users post. In her lawsuit, she claims that VVM knew that the explicit pictures her pimp posted of her on Backpage depicted a minor, and that they were advertising prostitution. Craigslist's Hooker Listings Are Officially DeadĪfter silently turning off its Adult Services section earlier this month, Craigslist has made it…Īccording to Ars Technica, the former child prostitue was hawked on -a Craigslist knockoff owned by Village Voice Media-by her pimp starting at age 14. One,, is being sued by a former child prostitute. But, as we pointed out, there are many other places to buy sex online.
Craigslist shut down its Adult Services section, caving to Attorneys General and anti-sex trafficking groups.
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