Classified: The War on Backpage.com is now streaming on the video platform CiVL. It’s a new 42-minute documentary film produced by Reason, directed by Paul Detrick, and reported by me. Classified features exclusive interviews with Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey as he awaited sentencing. Lacey is now in prison, sentenced to five years. And his story bodes poorly for free speech online broadly, for sex workers who want safer working conditions, and for all sorts of tech companies. The first time I met Michael Lacey, he had just been grilled by members of the Senate. In the hallway after the h…