Clearly no one is reading the Senate reports or any of the other factual detail pertaining to Backpage's conduct. They were very obviously doing everything in t

Clearly no one is reading the Senate reports or any of the other factual detail pertaining to Backpage's conduct. They were very obviously doing everything in their power to continue advertising children. They hired staff and trained them to help posters avoid trigger words, but as you said would post the ads and basically never alert law enforcement. There are some good points in here from people quoting sex workers and people who try to help sex workers (public health officials etc) who believe that having everything centralized and public was a benefit to their efforts, but anyone defending Backpage's conduct is either willfully ignorant of their behavior and just sharing their general views about prostitution or has a seriously messed up idea of right and wrong.