LOS ANGELES — ASACP, the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection, on Monday announced MojoHost, Cherry Pimps, and Cybersocket as its Featured Sponsors for August 2021.
ASACP’s Featured Sponsors rank among the industry’s most respected companies and serve as excellent examples of how corporate responsibility, ethical operation, and basic proactive measures all help to protect minors and other online viewers from accidental exposure to age-restricted materials.
ASACP Executive Director Tim Henning said that the nonprofit association’s success relies on the continued support it receives from companies and organizations that assume a bold, leadership role in the fight to keep children out of and away from adult-oriented materials.
“ASACP’s sponsors promote online child safety and help protect the innocence of youth by taking several simple steps to restrict access to their apps and sites,” Henning said.
“By working with content publishers and other industry stakeholders, ASACP helps raise awareness of relevant issues and eases the deployment of effective measures across an evolving range of digital media platforms,” Henning explained. “Through our partnerships and programs, the association continues to improve the safety of children’s daily digital lives.”
The generous guidance and support that ASACP receives from its sponsors, such as MojoHost, Cherry Pimps, and Cybersocket, power its 25-year-long record of success and enables its free child protection resources; including publishing market-specific Best Practices and a comprehensive Code of Ethics for businesses, app publishers, and all operators of age-restricted websites.
At the pinnacle of ASACP’s significant achievements are its globally recognized RTA (Restricted To Adults) meta labeling system that helps parents prevent children’s access to adult-oriented webpages and mobile apps; and its CP Reporting Tipline, which has earned worldwide respect for processing more than 1 million user reports to date, leading to the takedown of numerous “bad actors” in the online space.
As with all of ASACP’s services, these tools are provided to all website and app publishers free of charge, thanks to the ongoing generosity of its sponsors.
For August’s Featured Sponsors, ASACP honors MojoHost, Cherry Pimps, and Cybersocket, recognizing the continued commitment that these market leaders make to keeping the internet safer for children and their families.
MojoHost
As a leading adult technology company, MojoHost has a generous history of supporting the industry, recognizing the vital work by ASACP when it became a sponsor a decade ago. The company specializes in adult website hosting with shared and dedicated hosting. Additional services include the MojoCDN content delivery network, MojoCloud storage and private cloud architecture, MojoShield web application firewall, MojoDomains service, and more.
Founder and CEO Brad Mitchell serves on the association's Advisory Council and Executive Board and provides marketing resources. Keeping children away from age-restricted content fits in line with his personal goals as a parent, even more than his role as a technology and thought leader.
“The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) needs more industry support,” stated Mitchell, who urged the community to step up. “Now more than ever, I challenge business owners to pick a membership level that they can afford, and step up no matter how small. It truly helps the organization and goes towards a critical cause in the digital age.”
Cherry Pimps
Supporting the association as a Corporate Sponsor since 2013, Cherry Pimps helps to protect children and other viewers from inadvertent exposure to age-restricted materials by locking its content behind a paywall — requiring viewers to purchase access to the company’s adult material, including its live webcam sex shows — rather than offering it as a free-for-all.
“We’re happy to continue our support of the ASACP as they work to help protect children online,” says Cherry Pimps Director Eric. “Their work is invaluable and we must remember that their work is often thankless, but extremely necessary to keep child predators out of the online environment.”
“We thank the entire team at ASACP and look forward to many more years of cooperation,” he added. “I encourage all those who are not sponsors, to step up to the plate and participate, and give back to your community.”
Cybersocket
An ASACP Corporate Sponsor since 2003, Cybersocket promotes gay adult websites to a large and varied audience while providing news, practical resources, and provocative original content for the LGBTQ community. An industry leader, it has for the past two decades hosted the annual Cybersocket Web Awards honoring the finest gay online services and provides a powerful example of how to keep children out of and away from adult-oriented material, in part by using the RTA label.
“My business partner and I have supported the mission of ASACP from its inception. And for several years I was able to be on its advisory panel,” Cybersocket’s Morgan Sommer says. “I know the real-world work that ASACP does in the realm of child protection that it is necessary, and most of which goes unseen and unpublicized. In the current social and political climate, I feel it is more important than ever to self-police as an industry and make it clear to all that we have no interest in minors visiting our sites and that we as an industry are just as keen as anyone else to expose and remove child predators who lurk online.”
“ASACP is thankful for the continued commitment, generosity, and leadership displayed by our family of sponsors, including MojoHost, Cherry Pimps, and Cybersocket, and we encourage other market leaders to join us in carrying our mission forward,” Henning concluded. “ASACP’s sponsors make a meaningful difference in the battle for online child protection — and your company can too.”
To learn more about how your company can protect itself by protecting children, email [email protected].
