The arrest of the CEO of Backpage.com, a classified-advertising website whose lurid escort ads have become highly controversial, is presenting new challenges for a company that has proven adept at slipping out of legal danger. But the criminal charges filed this week also raise a familiar problem for law-enforcement authorities targeting Backpage: how to overcome the powerful protections that federal law provides for website...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 07, 2016 20:26 UTC