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Articles by Tim Henning

Op-Ed: Adult Industry Has Much Better Track Record Monitoring User-Generated Content Than Big Tech

The article posted by the writer Nicholas Kristof on December 4 in the New York Times tells a heart-wrenching story with a narrow focus on only one company and one issue that plagues many giant tech companies on both adult entertainment and mainstream platforms, including but not limited to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, XVideos, Pornhub and virtually every platform that accepts user generated content (UGC) on a massive scale.

2017 ASACP Service Recognition Award Winners Announced

The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) has announced ASACP’s Dawn Yagielowicz, Wasteland.com’s Colin Rowntree and EngineFood.com’s Stewart Tongue are this year’s winners of the association’s annual Service Recognition Award.

ASACP: Focusing on the Future

As renewed signs of economic vigor are beginning to warm the financial outlook of media companies around the world, the online adult entertainment industry is struggling to redefine itself — combating the damage done by several years of economic downturn and technological tardiness, piracy and politics — damage that served to deflate industry coffers nearly as quickly as it had filled them in the earlier years of the digital age.

Tim Henning ·
opinion

ASACP: Protecting Children, Preserving Your Business

With the first month of 2015 coming to close, ASACP has already had a busy year, with its recent attendance at two of the major adult entertainment industry trade events, XBIZ 360 in Hollywood and the AEE/Internext events in Las Vegas.

Tim Henning ·
opinion

ASACP: Forging Ahead and Continuing to Make a Difference

A new year is upon us and I am looking forward to an exciting and innovative year for ASACP that will continue to make positive contributions to the industry as well as children, parents and educators the world over.

Tim Henning ·
opinion

ASACP Looks Forward to 2015

As 2014 came to a close and ASACP looks forward through 2015, it is important for us as an organization to review the challenges and accomplishments we faced during the past year and to consider how these changes will affect us going forward.

Tim Henning ·
opinion

ASACP: At the Crossroads

With 2014 beginning to wind down I have found myself reflecting upon the kind of year it has been with so many challenges facing both online child protection and the online adult entertainment industry. In my gut it feels very much to me like the industry is at a crossroads.

Tim Henning ·
opinion

ASACP Responds to Morality in Media

In a recent newsletter sent out by Morality in Media entitled “Proof the Tide is Turning!” it was claimed that the adult entertainment industry is scared and “they recognize that we are coming for them and that we are collectively saying no more to sexual exploitation.” MIM claimed this “proof” came from my recent column — “Is the Pendulum Swinging Back.”

Tim Henning ·

ASACP is the Solution to Protecting Children Online

Founded in 1996, ASACP is a nonprofit organization dedicated to online child protection, comprised of two separate corporate entities, the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection and the ASACP Foundation. The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization that manages a membership program providing resources to companies in order to help them protect children online.

Tim Henning ·

ASACP: Online CP is a Growing Problem

The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) has long valued its close working relationships with global law enforcement agencies and the mutual benefit that these channels nurture. Additionally, maintaining ties with legislators ensures that all decision makers are aware of the cultural, legal and technical limitations of online child protection in an era when nearly every minor it seems carries the Internet in their pocket.

Tim Henning ·
opinion

ASACP: Is the Pendulum Swinging Back

I continually hear from industry that porn has become so ingrained in modern culture that it has now become virtually mainstream to the masses and there is no putting that Genie back in its bottle. While I agree that adult entertainment has become much more accepted by a larger segment of modern society than it was pre-Internet, I believe we are beginning to see the pendulum swinging back towards more conservative values and while the Genie may or may not be able to be forced back into the bottle it can certainly be made to hide — one way or another.

Tim Henning ·
opinion

ASACP: Eyes Wide Shut

The game is afoot people — are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin — I hope you have been paying attention to the highly significant proposals that are being brought forward to both how the Internet is delivered and who it is controlled by. These changes have the potential to alter the status quo that we all have enjoyed for the past 20 years ... give or take. We live in a time where a free and open Internet is a unique and vital service for people globally. This needs to be both protected and cherished. Yet this free and open system is the very thing that threatens the agendas of many in positions of power and those people seek to garner greater control of perhaps the most level playing field the world has ever known.

Tim Henning ·
opinion

ASACP: Taking a Stand Against ATVOD’s Age-check Initiatives

The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is continuing to call for more thoughtful solutions to the problem of preventing minors from accessing legal adult entertainment websites, following recent actions in the U.K. that will require age verification to view porn online — actions being eyed across the EU and elsewhere.

Tim Henning ·
opinion

ASACP: Self Regulate Or Be Regulated

Even though adult entertainment is by definition intended for adults only, many minors do access it. This is unsurprising, since today’s children become adept with and reliant upon the Internet and technology at ever younger ages. They can even become more adept than their parents over time.

Tim Henning ·

ASACP Welcomes Fuckbook.com as Newest Corporate Sponsor

The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) on Tuesday announced that Fuckbook.com and its affiliate program Cummission.com have become the association’s newest Corporate Sponsor.

opinion

ASACP Declares Victory in U.K. Filtering Debate

The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is delighted to declare a victory for personal freedom, as changes to the U.K.’s new Internet filtering scheme ease access to lawful online adult entertainment for those that wish to both make use of the filtering technology services, being offered by some U.K. ISPs, to protect their children online and still continue to have access to their own legal content viewing choices.

Tim Henning ·

ASACP Announces Featured Sponsors for May

The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) has named its Featured Sponsors for the month of May, recognizing those responsible adult companies that continue to be leaders in the fight to protect children online.

opinion

Finding a Better Road in the Midst of a Changing Regulatory Landscape

With the first months of 2014 coming to a close, ASACP has already had a busy year, with its recent attendance at two of the major adult entertainment industry trade events, XBIZ 360 in Hollywood and the AEE/Internext event in Las Vegas.

Tim Henning ·

ASACP: Looking Forward To 2014

As ASACP looks forward to 2014, it is important for us as an organization to review the challenges and accomplishments we faced during the past year and to consider how these changes will affect us going forward.

Tim Henning ·
opinion

Filtering Alone is Ineffective, Potentially Harmful

The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is calling for more thoughtful solutions to the problem of preventing minors and adolescents from accessing legal adult entertainment websites.

Tim Henning ·
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