Conspiracy of Silence
We have seen how Backpage had used litigation tactics by manipulating legal loops to keep from itself from facing the music.
Most courts had had no choice but to grant them temporary victories because of the unduly broad language of the Section 230 loophole.
But following the subpoena blitz we previously reported on, Portman and his colleagues on Capitol Hill had what they considered incontrovertible evidence in the way of Backpage’s own internal communication.