Adult Sites Against Child Pornography can now actually enter and view Websites suspected of featuring or including child porn without fear of legal repercussions.
The group said April 10 that they can actually look and verify for themselves a reported suspect site and pass what they find along to the FBI, an indication that the group's cooperative relationship with the FBI is paying off in its child porn fighting effort.
"In the past it was illegal for anyone, even ASACP, to access suspect sites as a paid member," the group said. "The FBI gave ASACP permission to enter a suspect site and review it with the member ID and password submitted by our supporters."
ASACP has also made more changes to its procedures, including the adding of supplemental data like site registration, hosting company, and billing company information in its reports. ASACP's compliance and site review manager is now doing other research based on FBI requests, the group said. And, ASACP has also begun probing reports of spam that push sites as featuring or including child porn.
Meanwhile, ASACP was featured in a SexTV segment that aired in March in Toronto.
SexTV interviewed Irvine and three ASACP advisory council members, Aly Drummond (Python Video cruise director), Bill Lyons (Free Speech Coalition executive director), and Gary Kremen (Sex.com owner). "We are extremely pleased with how SexTV presented the industry, ASACP, and its mission," Irvine said in a statement.
SexTV became interested in doing the segment not long after CTV News in Canada interviewed Irvine during the child porn controversy that surrounded Peter Townshend earlier this year. The guitarist/composer of the Who was ultimately cleared of child porn allegations, after it was learned he had visited child porn sites as part of his own research into the subject for a book.
As always, you can get more information on ASACP by contacting [email protected] or visiting ASACP on the Web.
