Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP)
Stormy Daniels, Joan Irvine, and Joy King at a press conference in Washington, D.C. in May 2008.
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| Formation | 1996 |
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| Founder | Alec Helmy |
| Mission | Fighting against child pornography |
| Website | asacp |
The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is an American non-profit organization that fights Internet child pornography and works to help parents prevent children from viewing age-inappropriate material online.
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.
ASACP was founded in 1996 by Alec Helmy, founder and president of XBIZ, Publisher of Adult Industry News & Information 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. Sites can also be shut down by reporting them to web hosts and domain name registrars. In April 2007, the organization announced that their online reporting system had registered its 200,000th report from internet users.
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. On June 22, 2007 ASACP held a press conference to officially announce the Restricted to Adults - RTA Website Label. A video which includes highlights from the press conference and comments from Free Speech Advocate Greg Piccionelli and Wicked Pictures adult film star, writer, and director Stormy Daniels is available on ASACP's YouTube Channel.
In March 2008, ASACP released a public service announcement (PSA) featuring Daniels for the Restricted to Adults - RTA Website Label. Daniels has appeared in such films as The 40-Year Old Virgin, Knocked-up, and the FX Network series Dirt. The RTA PSA features Daniels discussing the RTA website label and encouraging parents to use parental filtering software to protect children from viewing 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.
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