WTF ASACP?

[furrygirl]

On a side:

When did ASCAP change their name, and why? Their site now says "Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection". Was the original group name too edgy or something?

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PS: It's also weird that ASCAP promotes an internet filter review site from this pack of nutters: http://www.nationalcoalition.org Personally, if I was trying to filter my kid's access, I'd want to know if my recommendations were coming from right wing god fanatics who offer information to "affirm biblical truths on a range of moral and ethical issues". A lot of internet filtering services are seriously backwards, as they censor information about everything from breast cancer to birth control to coming out queer. (Yes, under 18s do need access to information about how to use condoms or what to do if they think they're gay.) I surely wouldn't trust religious fanatics to advise anyone as to how to censor their internet, and it's too bad that ASCAP is giving them linkage. Maybe they could do their own run-down of internet filtering services from a more secular viewpoint, including telling parents if a filter is faith-based and blocks homosexuality and reproductive health information.

[Linkster]

As far as the name change - here's the press release: http://www.asacp.org/press/pr030205.html

For reporting - while a report to ASACP is a good idea - for people that live in the US the law states that you have to report them elsewhere:
42 U.S.C. 13032 – REPORTING OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY BY ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SERVICE PROVIDERS

Whoever, while providing an electronic communication service or a remote computing service to the public through a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce, obtains knowledge of facts or circumstances from which a violation of certain offenses involving child pornography is apparent, must report those facts or circumstances to the [CyberTipline] at the National Center for Missing [&] Exploited Children as soon as is reasonably possible


Now - one of the things that ASACP does is to look at the content and report it to the NCMEC if they determine it to be true cp - that said - with the amount of people that use that type of text in an email to lure people in - in 90% of the cases it is not cp
If you look at the stuff to see - then report it immediately if it is, then "normally" you would be protected under the law. ASACP assumes that you have already looked at the material when you report it as just reporting something based on linking text isnt justification