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 |  It’s no secret Tony Ortega was a staunch defender of the special privileges and freedoms of billion dollar corporations back when he was on the Backpage payroll. Freedoms like that of selling children to predators online for a cut of the profit were, after all, the sole reason Backpage was founded in the first Continue reading Making The Case for A Corporation’s Right To Sell Kids  Karen de la Carriere aka Snow Suzy Even though he’s unemployed and without any discernible means of supporting himself, Tony Ortega keeps the lights on (and keeps the hate flowing) thanks in part to a number of easy marks he’s been leaching off over the years. Without the help of this small army of Continue reading Tony Ortega’s Problematic Enablers #5 Karen De La Carriere  Tony “Scoop” Ortega Some time ago we took a deep dive into Tony Ortega’s “professional” past, giving special attention to the way in which his editorial brand of vitriolic invective was received at the time by his readers. It should come as no surprise that Tony Ortega has always relied more heavily on Continue reading Tony Ortega’s Rotten, Forgotten High School Hit Piece  Tony Ortega doesn’t have a wide variety of intellectual tricks up his sleeve. Indeed, the rhetorical power at his disposal consists mainly of bullying, mean-girl style whisper campaigning, and projection. And it is to this last idea, that of projection, which we turn our attention today. There is a certain set of false Continue reading More Projection Than a Movie Theater  The pandemic of social ills Tony Ortega’s good friends over at Backpage unleashed on the nation have been an ongoing horror story. The trail of broken lives and destroyed families Backpage left in its wake remain the most enduring legacy of what Tony Ortega wanted us all to believe was nothing more than Continue reading Backpage: A Vulgar Web of Coercion  Unless, like Tony Ortega, you work in the shady field of Internet propaganda (or some of the more questionable advertising agencies of Madison Avenue) you may be unfamiliar with the concept of ‘perception management’. Briefly, it is a ‘term of art’ coined by the wartime propaganda unit of the United States military and, according Continue reading Tony Ortega’s Dirty Tricks #53: “Perception Management”  Few people would ever mistake Tony Ortega for Heidi Fleiss, the so-called Hollywood Madam whose upscale prostitution ring based in Los Angeles, California ensnared a number of high profile personalities. While Tony Ortega did work to promote Backpage, at times with the rabid ferocity of a dyspeptic junkyard dog, many of those who became Continue reading Jail Sentence for “Promotion of Prostitution” May Set Compelling Precedent For Backpage Promoters Like Tony Ortega  Last week we reported to you some heartening news out of the Washington, D.C., area regarding the successful prosecution of the last two pimps in what had been one of the lingering sex trafficking rings of the infamous Backpage era. Friday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced on its blog that, collectively, Continue reading Score One for the Good Guys: Backpage Sex Ring Sentenced To 81 Years in Prison  If Tony Ortega had to choose a favorite propaganda devices we here at the blog would guess he’d pick ‘disinformation’ by a country mile. The fact is disinformation has long been Ortega’s go-to tool for muddying the waters and sowing discord in his various smear campaigns against those he designates as his “enemies”. Continue reading Tony Ortega’s Dirty Tricks #42: Disinformation  Tony Ortega With court cases being delayed and investigations temporarily stayed amid the global pandemic, encouraging updates about Backpage prosecutions have been few and far between. Until now. On Tuesday July 28th, two men who pleaded guilty to trafficking an underage girl as part of a prostitution ring that operated in the Continue reading Individuals Like Tony Ortega Are Reprehensible | You can’t make donations to this site…
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