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Founded in 1996, the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating child pornography from the Internet. ASACP battles child pornography through its CP reporting hotline, and by organizing the efforts of the online adult industry to combat the heinous crime of child sexual abuse. ASACP also works to help parents prevent children from viewing age-inappropriate material online.

why ASACP?

Shutting down CP sites (and catching child pornographers!) can only happen if suspected sites are reported and investigated. But it's hard for the government to review all the reports with which they're inundated. In addition, members of the general public surfing the web may feel uncomfortable contacting government agencies.
Fortunately, ASACP fosters communication and cooperation with the online adult industry. This means we have the outreach and access to involve adult sites and their customers, as well as the knowledge and technical ability to review submitted reports, and forward suspect sites to the authorities who consider our Red Flag Reports to be high priority.

what we do & how we do it

  • ASACP provides an online hotline for web surfers and webmasters to report suspected child pornography. Our many member sites provide links to this hotline, which receives thousands of reports every month.
  • ASACP investigates these reports and determines the hosting, billing, IP address, ownership, and linkage of suspected CP sites. ASACP then forwards Red Flag reports to the appropriate government agencies and associations. These include the FBI and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, as well as European hotlines. We also notify ISPs and payment processors when their hosting and billing services are hijacked by CP operators.
  • ASACP's Approved Member program for adult sites offers a model of effective self-regulation for the online adult industry. Approved Member sites are required to comply with our Code of Ethics.
  • ASACP has established Best Practices for members, which are recommended not just for adult sites, but also for search engines, billing and hosting companies, dating sites, and others.
  • ASACP created the RTA ("Restricted to Adults") label to better enable parental filtering, and to demonstrate the online adult industry's commitment to helping parents prevent children from viewing age-inappropriate content.
  • ASACP keeps its members informed on current laws and regulations pertaining to child pornography and child protection, as well as new and pending legislation.
  • ASACP works to educate and inform its members, the online adult industry, government policy makers, and the public about issues related to child protection, illegal online activities, and the efforts of the online adult industry to battle child sexual abuse.

how you can help

  • Join ASACP and become a Member or Sponsor!
  • The ASACP logo displayed on a member site means that site neither contains nor condones child pornography.
  • Thousands of adult sites have already joined our cause, helping to raise awareness and fight child sexual abuse.
  • Our Sponsors include some of the largest and most prominent online adult companies. Click HERE for a complete list!
  • Donate to ASACP, and/or Become a Supporter!


latest news

July 3 - Join ASACP at XBIZ Summer Forum (read)
July 2 - Girlfriends Films Joins ASACP as Corporate Sponsor (read)
June 26 - ASACP CEO Joan Irvine Interviewed On D.C. News (read)
June 23 - ASACP Attends Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography Meeting in D.C. (read)
June 12 - ASACP and RTA Honored with Mayor’s Commendation (read)
ASACP and Stormy Daniels Join Together to Create RTA PSA (read)
 

quotes

Given the fact that GigaCash works with many content producers as well as affiliate programs, there is a sense of security that the ASACP logo brings, letting me know that the company I am dealing with is following the ASACP guidelines. -- Stephen, GigaCash
I want to thank you for doing something so good. I have two young children myself, and couldn`t imagine anything like this happening to them. It`s nice to know that other people are looking out for your children as well as yourself.

I just wanted to say thank you and let you know how grateful I am to see your efforts are making a profound impact on the child porn distributed on the web.  I was told a few years back that there is no way to get rid of the child porn on the web because these people if caught just abandoned the old URL and popped a new one out just as quick as the snap of my fingers.  This was discouraging to me because it hurts me to see these innocent beings of light being manipulated into doing things that will destroy the way they interact with there fellow beings the rest of their life here in the flesh.  I'm amazed at just how sick some of these people are to have sex with infants, I just don't understand how you get to that space.  It makes me so angry, I wish that there was a way to eliminate this urge from these people that commit such acts, but even if you removed there arms, hands, legs, and sexual organs, they would still have that desire and could still harm children.  I just didn't know how to handle this because what I was hearing was that these people were going to keep getting away with this.

Then I ran into your web site while surfing the net looking for an organization like the FBI that could at least attempt to put a dent in it.All I can say is WOW!  Your company is doing a great job at choking these people.  What I understood as impossible, has been given hope due to your efforts to eliminate such material off the net.  What I can tell you is, every web site that I have turned into you has been blocked within a few weeks which tells me that your team is actively pursuing these criminals.  I just wanted to say thank you very much for your love and light, because without it, our world is progressing into an abyss I'm not sure we know how to get out of.  Your company is doing an awesome inspiring job and I'm so grateful for your efforts.  Imagine all the children you will save from this heartache by continuing to follow in this direction.  I commend you for your efforts.

Thank you, Love all of you, Kent

 
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