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Passions Unchained supports your rights to view adult
content
on the web, but we DO NOT condone Child Pornography! |
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In an
effort to help keep children off of this site, Passions
Unchained takes many
steps to insure our site can be easily identified as an
Adults Only website.
In an effort to insure this site is recognized as an
Adults Only, XXX website, as well as the
visible warnings we provide on every page, we have
inserted the following codes into our pages: |
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XXX
RATED, MUST BE 18, MUST BE 21,
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ADULTS ONLY |
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Although these codes do not
appear visible on the pages, they can be recognized by internet
browsers, filtering software,
Internet Service Providers, search engines and even computer operating
systems as being off-limits to kids. |
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| To further help prevent minors from viewing our site,
Passions Unchained has voluntarily labeled each page of our website as 'Rated
XXX' with the ICRA, 'Restricted To Adults' with the ASACP
RTA, & 'Rated Adult' with SafeSurf. |
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So what does this mean to
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HOW IT WORKS
The ICRA, RTA and SafeSurf labels are designed to help you prevent your
child from being exposed to age inappropriate content online. Websites
that label with ICRA, RTA and SafeSurf cannot only be recognized by
internet browsers, filtering software, Internet Service Providers, &
search engines, but can also be recognized by filtering products and
services such as BluePrint Data™ CleanInternet.com™ ContentProtect™
CSWeb™ Cyber Sentinel™ FamiLink™ FilterGate™ iShield™ iShield™ Plus
Kidsnet™ Net Nanny™ Netsweeper™ ParentalControl Bar™ ScreenShield™
and SurfSafely.com™ |
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| About the ICRA, the RTA and the SafeSurf labels: |
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 The RTA Label: ASACP
(Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection) created the “Restricted To Adults” website label to better
enable parental filtering, and to demonstrate the online adult
industry’s commitment to helping parents prevent children from
viewing age-inappropriate content. The RTA label is free to use, voluntary, and
universally available to any website that wishes to clearly and
effectively label itself as being inappropriate for viewing by minors. Founded in 1996, the Association of Sites Advocating
Child Protection (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.
ASACP provides an online hotline for web surfers and webmasters to
report suspected child pornography. Our many member sites provide links
to this hotline, which receives thousands of reports every month. |
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 Labeled with ICRA: ICRA (formerly the Internet
Content Rating Association) is part of the Family Online Safety
Institute (FOSI), an international, non-profit organization of internet
leaders working to develop a safer internet. With a history stretching back to 1994, ICRA has long
believed that self-regulation leads to the best balance between the free
flow of digital content and protecting children from potentially harmful
material. The Institute works with a variety of organizations around the world
which, in one way or another help to promote the protection of children
from potentially harmful content and the protection of free speech on
the internet.
The centerpiece of the organization is the descriptive vocabulary, often
referred to as "the ICRA questionnaire." Content providers check which
of the elements in the questionnaire are present or absent from their
websites. This then generates a small file containing the labels that is
then linked to the content on one or more domains.
Users, especially parents of young children, can then use filtering
software to allow or disallow access to web sites based on the
information declared in the label. A key point is that ICRA does not
rate internet content - the content providers do that, using the ICRA
labeling system. ICRA makes no value judgment about sites. The ICRA
questionnaire can be completed in several different languages; however,
the labels themselves are expressed as computer code. The ICRA labeling
system is therefore independent of any given (human) language. |
FOSI's Associate Membership exists to allow smaller
companies and individuals to support FOSI's twin aims of protecting
children from potentially harmful material, and protecting free speech
on the internet.
FOSI is proud to count many companies and individuals as Associate
Members. They have all made a commitment to label websites they create
and maintain, and to support FOSI's work. |
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 The Safe Surf Adult Rating Label: The purpose
of the SURFSAFELY directory is to create a market driven
incentive for web developers to voluntarily rate their own
content using PICS labels (Platform for Internet Content
Selection), and families a single point of reference to find
labeled sites allowing them to use PICS filters effectively. Both major browser vendors, Netscape Navigator
(up to v4.78) and Microsoft Internet Explorer, have already done their
part by incorporating PICS filters into their products. But, in order
for this content selection mechanism to work as intended, content
developers must also rate and label their content using ICRA and/or
SafeSurf.
Admittedly, though, PICS filters do have one weakness. They can do only
two things with unlabeled content; Allow it or Block it. Because so much
of the web is presently unlabeled, PICS filters allow parents to bypass
filtering of unlabeled sites while continuing to filter labeled sites,
but what then is the point? Since most is unlabeled, most would pass
unchecked. If parents enable PICS to filter labeled sites and block
unlabeled sites, most get blocked. Even though the parent can allow the
viewing of unlabeled sites with a password, because the vast majority of
Internet content is unlabeled, that too gets old fast.
Enter SURFSAFELY. Because our directory requires all sites listed
here to be labeled according to content, families using SURFSAFELY
to locate sites are able to use the PICS filters as they were originally
intended without the headaches. |
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All three
of these labels have been voluntarily applied |
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to this website in an
effort to help keep children off of our site. |
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Links for Parents |
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Below is a list of informative resource links for parents on
child protection:
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ASACP - Association of
Sites Advocating Child Protection -
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. |
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ICRA - Internet Content Rating Association -
An international, independent
organization that empowers the public, especially parents, to
make informed decisions about electronic media by means of the
open and objective labeling of content. |
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Take Parental Control -
A guide for parents on how to
restrict or block inappropriate content on the Internet, on TV,
in videogames, on cell phones and more. |
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StaySafe.org -
An educational site intended to
help consumers understand both the positive aspects of the
Internet as well as how to manage a variety of safety and
security issues that exist online. |
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Parental Control Toolbar -
The Parental Control Bar is a
free public service that helps concerned parents prevent their
children from accessing adult-oriented websites. |
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SurfSafely.com -
A comprehensive Internet safety
portal presenting breaking news, product reviews, forum
discussions, public event listings, free newsletter
subscriptions and the world's largest Family Friendly Web
directory of voluntarily labeled online content. |
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) -
A Parent's Guide to Internet
Safety. |
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The NetSmartz Workshop®
is an interactive, educational safety resource for children aged
5 to 17, parents, guardians, and educators to teach children how
to stay safer on the Internet. |
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National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
- Know the Rules... General
Parental Tips to Help Keep Your Children Safer. |
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wiredsafety.org -
How children use the Internet and how to help them have a safer
and more enjoyable surfing experience. |
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GetNetWise -
Helps parents educate themselves and their children about how to
use the Internet safely. |
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We want you to enjoy your experience on our website,
but we will not condone child pornography, and we
will do our part to prevent children from accessing this site. |
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We ask that you, as a responsible adult, use the ASACP
Online Hotline link to
report child pornography on the web |
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