{"id":36478,"date":"2019-02-20T18:03:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T23:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36478"},"modified":"2019-02-20T18:03:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T23:03:28","slug":"reason-com-how-the-feds-are-using-civil-asset-forfeiture-to-threaten-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36478","title":{"rendered":"Reason.com: How the Feds Are Using Civil Asset Forfeiture to Threaten Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reason.com: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/using-asset-forfeiture-to-quelch-speech\">How the Feds Are Using Civil Asset Forfeiture to Threaten Free Speech<\/a> by Elizabeth Nolan Brown:<\/p>\n<p>Sex, publishing, and quasi-legal theft collide in the Backpage prosecution.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nProsecutors are ignoring the Constitution and legal precedent in their zeal to punish the founders and former staff of Backpage, by seizing money and other assets that stem from protected speech and legal activity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason.com: How the Feds Are Using Civil Asset Forfeiture to Threaten Free Speech by Elizabeth Nolan Brown: Sex, publishing, and quasi-legal theft collide in the Backpage prosecution. Prosecutors are ignoring the Constitution and legal precedent in their zeal to punish &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36479,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36478\/revisions\/36479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}