Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP)

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The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is a non-profit organization that fights Internet child pornography[1] and works to help parents prevent children from viewing age-inappropriate material online.[2]

Most of ASACP's funding comes from sponsoring companies in the online adult entertainment industry. There are hundreds of ASACP member companies, comprising thousands of websites. All ASACP member sites are required to comply with the group's code of ethics.[3]

ASACP was founded in 1996 as a hotline where webmasters and web surfers could report child pornography on the internet. ASACP’s online child pornography reporting hotline receives thousands of reports per month. ASACP investigates to determine the hosting, billing, IP address, ownership, and linkage of suspected child pornography sites. ASACP then forwards information to law enforcement, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and hotlines in other countries.[4] Sites can also be reported to webhosts and domain name registars in order to be shut down.

In late 2006, ASACP launched the RTA ("Restricted to Adults") website label. RTA is a META tag that webmasters place in the page headers of adult websites to better enable parental filtering.[5]. In April 2007, the organization announced that their online reporting system had registered its 200,000th report from internet users.[6] On June 22, 2007 ASACP held a press conference to officially announce the RTA ("Restricted to Adults") website label. A video which includes highlights from the press conference as well as comments from Free Speech Advocate Greg Piccionelli and Wicked PicturesContract Performer, Writer, and Director Stormy Daniels is available on ASACP's YouTube Channel.

In March 2008, ASACP released a public service announcement (PSA) featuring adult film star Stormy Daniels for the RTA (“Restricted to Adults”) website label. Daniels is a Wicked Pictures Contract Performer, Writer, and Director. In addition she has appeared in such films as The 40-Year Old Virgin, Knocked-up, and the FX Network series Dirt. The RTA PSA, which is available for viewing at ASACP's YouTube Channel features Daniels discussing the RTA website label and encouraging parents to use parental filtering software in order to protect children from viewing age-inappropriate content. The one minute video is the first in what will become an ongoing series of PSAs produced by ASACP featuring different adult entertainment stars.

[edit] References/Notes

  1. ^ 'Google Slapped with Porn Suit', Red Herring - May 5, 2006.
  2. ^ Orr, J.Scott. 'Web porn may get X-rated e-labels.' New Jersey Star Ledger - December 11, 2006.
  3. ^ Spigal, KC. 'ASACP: Advocating Child Protection.' Cybersocket - August, 2006.
  4. ^ 'ASACP At 10.' Klixxx Magazine - May, 2006
  5. ^ Reed, Theresa. ASACP Introduces "Restricted to Adult" Website Label with RTALabel.org. Ynot.com (2006-11-06). Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
  6. ^ ASACP Hotline hits 200,000 reports. BusinessVoyeur.com (2006-04-29). Retrieved on 2007-04-29.

[edit] External links

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): Innocent Images National Initiative
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ): Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS)
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS): Child Pornography on the Internet (PDF Document)
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE): Cyber Crimes Center
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC): Exploited Child Unit (ECU)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - A Parent`s Guide to Internet Safety