Demanding justice: Some women sued Backpage and several of its parent companies in Boston federal court in 2014, alleging that they were "repeatedly forced as minors to engage in illegal commercial sex transactions."
The US Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court's decision that an online advertising site accused by three young women of facilitating child sex trafficking was protected by a federal law that has shielded website operators from liability for content posted by others.
The refusal by the justices to take up the women's appeal in the case involving the advertising website Backpage.com marked a victory for the tech industry, which could have faced far-reaching consequences had the Supreme Court decided to limit the scope of the Communications Decency Act, passed by Congress in 1996 to protect free speech on the Internet.
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