LOS ANGELES - AVN Web Starlet of the Year Catalina Cruz promotes the use of the RTA website label in the latest PSA produced by the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection.
Fantasy Girl Revenue co-owner Cruz oversaw production of the video, which encourages parents to use parental filtering software in order to protect children from viewing inappropriate content. The spot is available online at YouTube.com/ASACPRTA.
The video is the fourth in an ongoing series of PSAs produced by ASACP featuring different adult entertainment stars. Previous spots featured Stormy Daniels, Sunny Leone, Tera Patrick and Evan Seinfeld.
"Out of all the things I've been involved with on the Internet over the years, being a part of the RTA ‘Restricted To Adults' Website Label Public Service Announcement campaign is the most important to me," Cruz said. "My fan base has always been solely on the Internet and I have always felt strongly about protecting children online. Since many of us are parents in the adult industry too, whether you work in front of the camera or behind, we believe it's important to give parents resources to block adult content. I am honored to have done a public service announcement for ASACP and follow such recognizable names like Tera, Stormy and Sunny. I hope I can generate awareness about the RTA label and that others will help get the word out as well."
Cruz recruited industry vet Dean Capture to edit the promo.
"A special thank you to industry photographer Dean Capture for his time and editing skills and also to ASACP for doing something so positive for our industry for many years," Cruz said.
RTA (Restricted to Adults) is the adult entertainment industry's initiative to protect children from exposure to online adult content.
Developed by the Association of Sites Against Child Pornography (ASACP), the RTA label is a unique string of "meta data" that can easily be inserted into the computer code of any website. Parental filtering software recognizes the tag and prevents children from viewing adult content. The RTA label is free and universally available. ASACP launched RTA in November 2006 and currently more than 4.5 million sites have labeled with RTA.
"We are so pleased that Catalina Cruz approached ASACP and volunteered to create this PSA in order to help us get out the message that parents need to be involved in protecting their children online," said ASACP CEO Joan Irvine. "ASACP relies on the initiative of volunteers in order to carry out our mission to protect children online. Cruz not only donated her time and resources to create this PSA, she contributed financially by becoming an ASACP approved member."
Founded in 1996, 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.
For more information, go to ASACP.org and RTAlabel.org.
