The front page of a newspaper contains the biggest news stories of the day. It also carries a big red masthead and eye-catching pictures. In general, the front pages of newspapers contain news from the country where it is circulated but if something really important happens somewhere else in the world it can make the front page too. Websites can have front pages too and they usually serve the same function.
Frontpage is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and Web site creation tool developed by Microsoft and bundled with its Windows line of operating systems until 2006. It requires server-side extensions, originally known as IIS Extensions and later renamed FrontPage Server Extensions, that were removed with the product in December 2006 and replaced by SharePoint Designer and Expression Web, two different Microsoft products designed for different types of websites.
Three Jane Does who had been sex trafficked as minors sued Backpage, an online marketplace for classified ads, in federal court in 2014. They accused the site of facilitating sex trafficking by allowing sex offenders to place ads that sell them to underage victims. The district court ruled against the Jane Does but they appealed to the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
The appellate judges ruled that Backpage’s actions in posting and editing third-party content constituted traditional publisher functions and were protected by CDA Section 230, the safe harbor that shields most commercial speech from liability. The case continues. In a related case, the founder and CEO of Village Voice Media, the company that owns Backpage, pleaded guilty in 2017 to charges of conspiracy and money laundering and admitted that the vast majority of adult advertisements on the site were for prostitution.
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