The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is an American

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that fights Internet

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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

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industry. There are hundreds of ASACP member companies, comprising thousands of

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. All ASACP member sites are required to agree with the group's

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Overview

ASACP was founded in 1996 by Alec Helmy, founder and president of

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as a hotline where website operators and users 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,

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, ownership, and linkage of suspected child pornography sites. ASACP then forwards information to law enforcement, the

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(NCMEC), and hotlines in other countries. Sites can also be shut down by reporting them to their web hosts and

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s. 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

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that webmasters place in the page headers of adult websites to better enable parental

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.Reed, Theresa. On June 22, 2007, ASACP held a press conference to officially announce the RTA website label. Numerous major pornographic sites use the RTA label, including,

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and kink.com.

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RTA ("Restricted to Adults") Label website
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