Please don't support BP.  Guys use other sources like Er*s,Tweet, P*1, and of course here is always good look in the photo board and reviews top 100 and discussions.  But don't support BP they are the main reason for this.  
Just my .02 If you read the link from the meeting.  You will see that BP has been very non compliant . During any "tragic" times they continue to think they are bullet proof and do not have to comply.  All in the name of money and 1st Amendment. Which I'm sorry when it comes to minors I do not agree.  If they made the girls send in a photo ID and use the name on the credit card "maybe" for the ones under 25 they could cut down on some of the under age and trafficking.  I don't know.  I'm sure some may not want them having their information.  But we have to give it to Er*s.  And you see they are still up.  Yeah BP is up.  But they are going after them and they want them and they are the MAIN reason for this and they WILL take them down before it's over with.  They didn't want the other sites they wanted BP
I can't post the link but if you read the amendment minutes/text from the meeting you will see where it talks about bp several times. Below is what the amendment is. Lengthy but worth it.

They were absolutely brilliant in changing their ads to phone number and pictures only, the other sites could learn from them, this may, *MAY* just save their bacon!

You obviously DID NOT go read what I was talking about so until you DO!!! You sound SILLY and I don't care what anyone has to say unless they actually read what I'm talking about.  How BP know violated and refused to comply among other things.  
You have to click on the blue hyper link to the right that says All Information to read the details of the meeting.

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"Bullet Proof". They are going to be last man standing. No reviews, no incessant blogging, no discussion boards, etc. You get a picture and a phone number. That's it. The sites that have a lot of user generated content are the most vulnerable ones because there is a lot of evidence and paper trail to follow.

Allowing advertising without reasonable age verification is what Bp and others like them are guilty of.  That is why there are these laws now. Or, at least a major reason.

Backpage DON'T care about their profits, their revenues or especially their image and bad publicity amongst the politicians, the media and the mis-informed... BACKPAGE is about the "First Amendment" they don't care if they get bankcrupt, bloodeed to the ground, burried in the mud they don't GAF they will keep fighting until the end because they believed that they have an obligation to fight for the FREEDOM FOR ALL, the rights of every single citizens, the rights of a single mom that was abused by a deadbeat husband and trying to survive independently by any means necessary to care forher children, an elderly widowed woman being evicted from her house lived in all her life because it doesn't conform in the neighborhood standards any longer, the rights of young people to rally and strenght that their schools are no longer safe to learn, because most of the dickhead politician can't come up with a reseonable gun laws, rights of a teenager wants to attend higher education to have chances in the future grows up in a foster homes but can't get any loans or financial assistance, rights of mentally disabled person that no one really fucking cares about because of the Gov closed all mental facilities due to lack of funding and all wind up in the street homeless and helpless, the rights of men wrongfully accused of domestic violence by a greedy gold digger crazy wife bankrupt him can't get any employment because of criminal records, winds up homeless and turns into drugs and alcohol, the rights of the Big Corporations that do what ever they do with the environment, drill oil offshore, destroys rainforest and pollutes the oceans and the sky, rights of a real estate developers builds everything for profits destroys all the prestine rolling hills and praires builds shopping malls, subduvisions and hotels, the religious right of the people wants to sacrifice chickens, goats and sheep for offering to their god, the rights of people that wants to worship anything,  birds, butterflies, snakes, my snake or blow up dolls, just made that one, the rights of the LGBT beautiful people, the rights of dark, GOTH dungeons secluded and even the rights of the wacko's and so on....BP is the modern Tom Joad (Grapes of Wrath), Thomas Jefferson (All men are created equal) Abe (Gov is for the people by the people and of the people) MLK (I have a dream) The Freedom Riders, ERA, SWOP...Rambo (They draw first blood, don't push it)...At this time BP. SWOP and Few Courageous women are the only one standing against these bullies...Most of the men are hiding running away siding with the wackos in DC contineous to badmouth BP to irradicates our rights...SO Fucking SAD....

Im sorry but your post is very naive.  They are not the reason for this.  Yes, they bring in the most revenue and if you remember how it was before, they were the low hanging fruit.  Asking for IDs does not solve it.  IDs can be faked.   Other directories may have a prettier interface but they are not without their legal issues.   The smartest thing they did was further remove themselves by allowing only phone numbers.  

According to this article, SESTA was prompted by a case involving BP. So maybe BP is to blame.  

So what are you suggesting? A Million Ho Rally in Washington, DC? What we do here thrives on anonymity. Nobody wants to be the face of a social stigma. Adapt or die. BP adapted. The rest are dead or going to be dead.

As I said.  What difference does it make now if they were or not?  You can source any article you want and find many different  opinions.  We are in a new reality that we either adapt to  or not.  Everything else is dinner conversation.

Well through out all the years the history of this country, some people are willing to die rather than kiss up with the few bullies that's taking everyones FREEDOMS...Why fucking adapt---only the cowards and weak will adapt, the strong rather die than to be slave byt the powerful.....

Sounds very romantic and idealistic but not particularly realistic or practical.
You are not storming some beach head in a far away continent to defend US interests.
Although plenty of people will support and agree with you privately, none will publicly.
If you have no public support, you are simply wasting time.

Million Ho Rally it cracks me up! Imagine a million hookers marching on Washington DC. One can only imagine what the speeches would be like. I hope it gets organized.

So what your saying is fold your hand across your chest sit in the corner and wait for someone to fight because you figure any effort to ficght is not worth any single second of your time, just a waste of time...Quiters only do that, weak people they quit easily, looks like you are one of them.....just sayin'

Also they are under a generic acceptable category ... women seeking men, or personals, or dating.  

How many guys will walk through asking um, what’s ur donation and services???

I agree with you 100%, but at the end of the day, the bottom feeders will find a new site to swim in their own toxic waste.

first they blamed CL, then they blamed bp, if bp went away, they'd blame whoever is biggest next. if you really think bp is the cause of sesta and not prudish americans who know nothing about sex traffickng, then you're the one who is misinformed.

Bravo

so blame your lib do-gooder bitch!

Sites like these is where the MOST underage trafficking took place as far as websites go. That is a fact.  Regardless of who's targeting who, facts are facts.  
Just how many true victims do you all think went through TER? E*** or p411????  
Now, ALL the good sites are in jeopardy. BP absolutely refused to take down an underage girls pics n THAT IS a major problem.  Here, is consenting adults. BP refusal to take down those pics created a major shitstorm in court. Now we all suffer.  
Netflix,  the movie "I am Jane Doe" watch it if you doubt any of this.  
XOXO
TL

If you dig deep you find that some lobbyists from adult dating sites pushed the legislation so they could get more  business for their pay sites.  They had been losing a lot of revenue from cheap ads from BP and free ads from CL.  Many of those pay sites have had providers on them for years. They are very funny how they get the money. You think you are seeing a lady for free until she gets in the room and says she needs a $100 baby sitting  fee lol.

I caught that Hidden Hills. cute.

It doesn’t make a difference not, it only highlights reason they went forward.

BP actually has some damn balls....fucking C L pansies

BP had underage girls.
All these other stuff is bullshit.

I saw one agency just moved their servers offshore - got rid of the .com and switched to .cc. They claim all the data they have on their servers are outside any US jurisdictions.

is actually  Cocos (Keeling) Islands, but probably they don't know or their web guy is not well informed because Verisign holds the registry and they still are managed by them. Anyone using a .tv or .cc domain for their website has put their website under the jurisdiction of the US government.

I don't know where you're getting your facts at....Yes BP has been sued for over 169 Cases of Sex Trafficking including minors, that's what the US Government Claims and accusations about BP and forcefully asserted but that's just it nothing but accusations...Nothing held water is US Courts NON, NIL ZERO, NADA, ZILTS that the US Government has successfully won NOT a Single Case, most of them were dropped and others were settled NON Disclusure Agreement...That's why this bullies are so pissed off at BP and they are trying so fucking hard to bring it down, because they knew they calculated that with the fall of BP, all these other site is easy picking, but BP has the guts to fight and and they are in their last layer of armor "The First Amendment" they have the resources and allies, like the Porn Industry, FB, Twitter, Google that fights for the protection of privacy, they can no longer touch the Porn Industry, they've lost that a long time ago..Porn is considered Art and it can not be censored under the Constitution,  they even try to intimidate the owner but nothing happend, also rallied and threathened the Banks Issuers of CC NOT to deal business with BP, but BP just turn to Bitcoins and moves their Finacial Procesing Division in a Neutral Countries.. BP is protected by the First Amendments in the Constitutions like most of the millions Porn Sites..BP has rules, "that they are only an advertising company" like any other companies and don't DO THE POLICING, instead the are fighting for the protections of privacy of all their customers, the LE do the policing "NOT BP" of the people that pays to advertise, no discriminations like FB,Twitter, Google and btw BP used to owned by CL Adult Section they were threatened and spun out and became BP...which is as you know today That CL is one of the original big three online advertising nd shopping companies only Amazon and Ebay are bigger..That's why they came up with this bogus law and compiles everything and connect it to Sex Trafficking the sound bites sound better than war on drugs or gun laws has nothing to do with anything but sanitized and irradicates "Free Speech"....

It's not really about trafficking--surely we all know that. Sex trafficking and sex work will both exist with or without websites like bp. This ham-fisted attempt '"to end the exploitation of women" or however they're moralizing it today will only make it more difficult to find the real victims.
Thing is, you can't blame bp for anything, those articles aside. The only reason it's being targeted repeatedly is because it's where the most vulnerable and desperate sex workers advertise (generally, no shade to anyone intended), and it makes the easiest target. But I'm not sure why you mention E*** is still up when there was a huge sting at their HQ last year... You don't really think that's any safer, do you? There's no one website that is safe or problem free.

They REFUSED to take down pics of a girl who had been beaten, had her head shaved and sold. She was in the 7th fucking grade!  
169 cases n you're pissed? I'm a mother and there is no place for shit like that! If BP was so wonderful,  they should have IMMEDIATELY removed those pics.  
Now places like this site are in jeopardy because of stupid decisions like that.  Yeah,  they are supposed to be fighting for free speech. Bullshit, they risk loosing MILLIONS if they are shut down. They should be accountable for content on their site! Why not? Other sites are!  
Fyi Google is NOT fighting for protection and privacy. They were all on board for the cloud act.
I am all for free speech but BP refusing to take down pics of minors is fucked up no matter how you slice or dice it.  We all should be fighting for the rights of CONSENTING ADULTS with free speech not defending an ad company that risk losing millions.  Keep fooling yourself they are fighting for what our rights are, they simply dont want to loose all that money. Fuck their money. Kids have no place on any adult site period.  Proof to me was their refusal to remove those pics. Care to defend that? I'm all ears 🤔

Not defending that, the problem is that the govt is putting us all under the same category refusing to distinguish between trafficked minors and consenting adults, to them we are all the same. Refusing to distinguish helps NO ONE and puts everyone's,including trafficked minors, lives in danger.

Fighting for the rights to have us distinguished from trafficking and our free speech as consenting adults is what we should fight for then.   I will never support any site that coaches traffickers on what to say in their post n refuse to remove pics of actual real victims. I guarantee you, if TER,  E*** or p411 found a minor on their site, they would ban that account and hopefully cooperate with local LE to get the trafficker caught.  That would be a win, win for all.  
I agree with the OP . We should not support sites that  allow true victims of trafficking on their site no matter how much that site makes ones phone ring.  
As an adult community,  I believe we should fight to have us distinguished from what the real problem is.  People on this site are not harming anyone n i know TER would ban accounts of traffickers of minors.  I'm sure the community here would be pro active and actually help get those sick fucks out there off this site. I feel a grown ass man or woman should have the right to do with their bodies as they see fit but any site with minors being TRAFFICKED should be stopped.  
XOXO
TL

FB, Twitter, Google and BP included, because of their Terms & Conditions, Disclaimers where everyone draws the line...The online providers aggresively and strongly built a WALL to protect their customers personal privacy, but the Feds wants those walls taken down so they can go after the BAD guys(Sex Traffickers, the exploiters of minors) But the companies contentions was they are NOT trained or don't want to do the POLICE work, only the Police Will do the policing not the companies...They tried to intimidate one another and no side got their on ways stands firmly on their ground and the hell broke loose and acted like children...this is where we at so far, I don't know, I'm not an attorney when are they gonna get their egos and harden small dicks set aside to make senses in all of this shit....

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... something hosted in Belize or Panama might be the move.

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I'm wondering how the whole thing with BP will play out.  I have used BP for a few years, and have overall had a good experience.  The occasional silly email.  Will they be shutting down?  To post ads now, you need cryptocurrency.  Obviously that is not traceable.  Taking BP aside, I'm sure there will be a ton of other sites.  
I just find it ironic that Trump has scandals with a few women right around the time that he was married/wife gave birth... and he is signing off on this bill.

I know who you're referring to.