The front-page is where major news stories are featured in a newspaper. The back pages contain lesser-known articles and advertisements, such as classified ads. The noun front-page is also used to describe the front page of an online article, particularly one involving a celebrity or political event.
In 2014, three Jane Does who were sex trafficked as minors sued Backpage in federal court, alleging that their traffickers placed ads on the website selling them for sex. The court found that Backpage had substantially changed some of the Jane Does’ ad content, so that its actions were not protected by CDA Section 230.
This is the first time that the court has held that a law regulating third-party advertising on an internet marketplace, rather than regulating third-party content, does not withstand First Amendment scrutiny and may be preempted by Section 230. Previously, courts in Washington state and Tennessee had enjoined similar laws that attempted to legislate Backpage out of existence.
FrontPage is a WYSIWYG HTML editor from Microsoft, originally bundled with Windows and included in the Office suite of applications until 2006. It was succeeded by Expression Web and SharePoint Designer. It is the only Microsoft product that uses the word Front in its name, and the company’s other flagship software products use the term Main Page.
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