>The indictment mentions it too, right before quoting an email by Backpage staff saying that referrals to NCMEC are to be capped at 500 per month or 16 per day.

This number is not helpful without context. For all we know that number is significantly over-reporting, was mostly false positives, and mostly resulted in the harassment of consenting adults.

>was to check ads for suspicious keywords. What Brown doesn't tell you is that their software then stripped the keywords out of the ads and ran them anyways.

I read the indictment too. They stripped out language like "young." What would you propose BP do in this scenario? Do you really want every attempted use of the word "young" reported to authorities? That's mostly going to waste resources and harass consenting adults.

Suffice to say the indictment and most media is going to be written in the most negative framing possible. I do know that it's politically expedient to harass/endanger prostitutes and I also know the NCMEC is against prostitution even when everyone is a consenting adult. For all I know BP execs were literally Hitler. But I also know I shouldn't take the framing from the state at face value.