LOS ANGELES — ASACP has announced MojoHost, Cherry Pimps and Cybersocket as its Featured Sponsors for August.
"Among the industry’s most respected companies,” a rep explained, “ASACP’s Featured Sponsors serve as excellent examples of how corporate responsibility, ethical operation and basic proactive measures all help to protect minors and other viewers from accidental exposure to age-restricted materials online.”
ASACP’s Executive Director Tim Henning shared that the nonprofit association’s ongoing success relied on continued support from market-leading companies and organizations that fight to keep minors 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 explained. “By educating publishers and stakeholders about the need for these measures and how they can best be implemented across an evolving range of digital media platforms, ASACP continues to make a positive, relevant difference in the daily digital lives of minors.”
The support that ASACP receives from sponsors, including MojoHost, Cherry Pimps and Cybersocket, “power its 25-year-long record of success and enables its free child protection resources; including market-specific Best Practices and a comprehensive Code of Ethics for businesses, app publishers, and all operators of age-restricted websites,” a rep said.
August’s Featured Sponsors include:
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 Co-Founder Morgan Sommer said. “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 grateful for and humbled by the continued commitment, generosity, and leadership displayed by our family of sponsors, including long-term contributors like 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.”
For additional details, visit ASACP online and on Twitter; contact Henning at tim@asacp.org.
