Interesting observations from both Obsessive and Libertine. The fatal flaw with any illegal business is that it needs to attract customers, and those efforts make the business vulnerable to LE. Conventional "word of mouth" doesn't produce the volume needed to make a sex operation viable, so signage and/or advertising is needed, both of which can alert LE. While LE does operate more on a complaint/response cycle, they also work proactively and go after targets they select from information they acquire. The internet unfortunately makes getting that information much easier for them. They don't even have to push away from the donut table and waddle down to the corner newsrack to pick up a Weekly newspaper. They can munch away and scroll through the multitude of ads online, and also reviews.
Likewise, news outlet reporters now also have a much easier way of finding leads for titillating stories to publish, and "activists" and politicians can make hay from what is available online. All of which brings more unwanted attention to our hobby, which generates more "outrage" and even greater scrutiny from LE.
As stated, the horses are out of the barn, and no matter what we do, review sites are not going away. Providers will still be vulnerable because of that, even if some of us band together and form private groups for sharing intel, or just email the mongers we know personally. We can be our own worst enemies sometimes, from blabby reviews to thoughtless mongers carelessly tossing used condoms into the parking lot (the ones they promised the girl they would get rid of discreetly), loud and boisterous behavior, or knocking on the wrong door at an AAMP location. We should continue to be discreet, but know that there will always those who will not be.
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