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Originally Posted by Connor
First, the term "child protection" is a loaded one with a long history. It implies certain
We ALREADY have a problem with the mainstream lumping legal adult entertainment and illegal child pornography into one group... they do this casually all the time without thinking about it. If the industry gets into "child protection," in the minds of many people that will seem like self-imposed penance, as if we're accepting that our industry bears some responsibility to engage in these activities. It just further solidifies that false link that many in the mainstream already make.
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Just to play the devil's advocate here. How is what you're describing different than what the ASACP does now? If we're linking the wording of child protection with lumping the adult industry into the same group as child abusers, and the idea of a self-imposed penance or self-regulation, the ASACP does this right now.
Again, just playing devil's advocate.
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ASACP educates members, the online adult industry, government policy makers, and the public about child protection, illegal online activities, and the efforts of the online adult industry to battle child sexual abuse. To do this, ASACP:
ASACP provides an online hotline for web surfers and webmasters to report suspected child pornography.
Investigates reports and determine the ownership of suspected CP sites and forwards Red Flag reports to international government agencies and associations including the FBI and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, as well as International Hotlines.
Notifies ISPs and payment processors when their hosting and billing services are hijacked by CP operators.
Creates a Code of Ethics for our Membership program - a model of effective self-regulation for the online adult industry.
Establishes Best Practices which are recommended for adult sites, search engines, billing and hosting companies, dating sites, adult sites and others.
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.
Informs members on current, new and pending laws and regulations pertaining to child pornography and protection.
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