Filtering Categories
Adults Only
Sites that the author or publisher labels as being strictly for adults. Such
labels include "Adults Only," "You must be 18 to visit this
site," "Registration is allowed only for people 18 or older,"
and "You must be of legal drinking age to visit this site."
Alcohol
Sites that advocate or promote the recreational use of alcoholic beverages.
This category includes, but is not limited to, sites that contain
information about drink mixes, home-brew recipes, and drinking games
Auction
Sites that offer access to online auctions. Online auctions are rarely
monitored, and can contain rapidly changing content that may expose users to
material that would otherwise be filtered under categories such as
Pornography, Weapons, Lingerie, or Violence.
Chat
Sites that offer access to unmonitored online chat rooms, or allow users to
download chat software that enables the online posting and receiving of
real-time messages.
Drugs
Sites that promote or advocate recreational drug use. This category is not
limited to controlled substances. Sites that promote or advocate
recreational use of prescription drugs are also included. The Drugs category
includes sites that contain information about topics such as growing,
buying, or selling marijuana, glass pipes, or bongs; mixing a legal
substance with alcohol, running methamphetamine labs, or inhaling various
forms of fumes.
Electronic Commerce
Sites that allow users to make online purchases that pose
a risk to users by offering direct access to items that would normally be
filtered under other categories such as Weapons, Profanity, Lingerie, or
Pornography.
Gambling
Sites where you place a bet with the expectation of winning a prize.
Gambling sites require online payment in order to participate.
Games
Sites that offer online games and related information such as cheats, codes,
demos, and emulators. The Games category also includes contests or
role-playing games that can be played online.
Hate/Discrimination
Sites that specifically target a group of people based on race, gender,
sexual orientation, religion, or ethnicity in a hateful, derogatory manner.
The language of these sites often includes racial slurs and is insulting,
abusive, and sometimes violent.
Illegal
Sites that promote illegal activities, or offer instructions or advice that
can be used to commit illegal activities. Such activities include making or
distributing child pornography, making bombs, hacking (breaching computer
security), phreaking (breaching phone security or phone service theft), lock
picking, selling pirated material (such as music, videos, software, or fake
IDs), and counterfeiting.
Jokes
Sites that post crude jokes, raunchy humorous stories, or other tasteless
forms of humor.
Lingerie
Sites that provide photos of models wearing lingerie, underwear, or
otherwise scant attire.
Message/Bulletin Boards
Sites that permit messages to be posted and read immediately.
Murder/Suicide
Sites that offer information about committing murder or suicide,
or that contain photos of crime scenes or autopsies. Sites containing
galleries of "death pics" are included in this category.
Nudity
Sites that contain photos or images of bare or visible genitalia, pubic
hair, buttocks, or female breasts. This category includes only sites that
contain non-pornographic nudity (that is, nudity that is not intended to be
sexually arousing or erotic).
Personals
Sites that contain personal advertisements, including information about
mail-order brides, dating services, escort services, or pen pals.
Pornography
Sites that contain material that are intended to be sexually arousing or
erotic. This includes photos, animation, cartoons, and stories. This also
includes child pornography.
Profanity
Sites that contain crude, vulgar, or obscene language or gestures. Words
used in a context that the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines as
"considered vulgar" or "considered obscene". Sites that
include excessive use of letter substitution, such as "f@ck, sh*t, @ss,
P*Ss" are still considered to fit into the Profanity category.
School Cheating Information
Sites that promote plagiarism or cheating by providing term papers, written
essays, or exam answers.
Search Engines
Sites that offer unfiltered, unrestricted, unverified, search engines.
Swimsuits
Sites that contain photos of models in swimwear, especially fashion swimwear
photos.
Tasteless/Gross
Sites that include content such as tasteless humor, excretory functions
(vomiting, urinating, or defecating), graphic medical or accident scene
photos (containing blood or wounds), and some extreme forms of body
modification (cutting, branding, or genital piercing).
Tobacco
Sites that advocate or promote the recreational use of tobacco.
Violence
Sites
that contain graphic images or written descriptions of reckless violence or
grave injury (for example, mutilation, maiming, or dismemberment). The
Violence category includes graphically violent games.
Weapons
Sites that contain information about buying, making, modifying, or using
weapons such as guns, knives, swords, or ammunitions.
Web Page Hosting / Free Pages
Sites that provide Web page hosting for their users such as homepages that
share a common domain. These sites include those provided by ISPs,
University/education servers, free Web page hosts, etc. Although many of
these Web page providers post rules and regulations for content, they do not
always adequately monitor this content. Users often abuse Web page services
by posting offensive content under multiple pseudonyms. Because this
category contains hundreds of millions of pages, it is not practical to
assign more granular categorization to individual pages. However, any page
can be added to your local block and allow list, enabling access to specific
content even if the category has been selected to be blocked.
Exception Categories
Education
The "Education" exception allows access to sites that contain
material that may belong to another category, such as Sex, Nudity, or
Violence, but that relates to an educational topic such as classic
literature, history, art, or sex education.
For Kids
The
"For Kids" exception allows sites designed specifically for kids
that contain material that may be filtered under another category, such as
Games or Jokes.
History
The "History" exception allows access to sites that contain
material that may be in another category, such as Sex or Violence, but that
is non-fictional and historically significant.
Medical
The "Medical" exception allows access to sites that contain
material that may belong to another category, such as Nudity or
Tasteless/Gross, but that relates to the study or practice of medicine.
Moderated
The "Moderated" exception allows access to moderated
message/bulletin boards or chat sites. The author or publisher of these
sites must state that efforts are made to prevent offensive material from
being posted.
Text/Spoken Only
The "Text/Spoken Only" exception allows sites that contain
material that may belong to another category, such as Pornography, but that
is strictly in text or spoken word format. For example, the Text/Spoken Only
category distinguishes written erotica from graphic pornography sites.
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