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Category Descriptions
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Adults
Only:
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| 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." |
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Alcohol:
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| 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. |
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Auction:
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| 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. |
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Chat:
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| Sites that offer access to online chat rooms, or allow users to download chat software that enables the online posting and receiving of real-time messages. |
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Drugs:
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| 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. |
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Electronic Commerce:
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| Sites that allow users to make online purchases. Many e-commerce sites 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. |
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Employment
Search:
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| Sites that provide direct access to employment resources, such as job listings. |
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Free Mail:
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| Sites that offer free Web-based
e-mail accounts. Free Mail sites can expose users to harmful content delivered
via e-mail file attachments. |
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Free Pages:
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| Sites that offer free Web
site space. Although many of these free Web site providers post rules and regulations
for content, they do not always adequately monitor this content. Users often abuse
free Web site services by posting offensive content under multiple pseudonyms. |
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Gambling:
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| Sites where you place a
bet with the expectation of winning a prize. Gambling sites require online payment
in order to participate. |
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Games:
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| 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. |
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Hate/Discrimination:
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| 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. |
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Illegal:
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| 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. |
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Jokes:
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| Sites that post jokes, humorous
stories, or other forms of humor. |
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Lingerie:
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| Sites that provide photos
of models wearing lingerie, underwear, or otherwise scant attire. |
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Message/Bulletin
Boards:
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| Sites that permit messages
to be posted and read immediately. |
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Murder/Suicide:
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| 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. |
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News:
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| Sites that contain material
reported in a newspaper, periodical, or a newscast, whether it is current or archived. |
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Nudity:
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| 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). |
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Personal
Information:
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| Sites that gather personal
information (such as name, address, credit card number, school, or personal schedules)
that may be used for malicious intent. |
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Personals:
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| Sites that contain personal
advertisements, including information about mail-order brides, dating services,
escort services, or pen pals. |
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Pornography:
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| 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. |
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Profanity:
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| 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. |
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Recreation/Entertainment:
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| Sites that contain updated
information about various recreation and entertainment events such as movie listings,
theater and concert schedules, or local entertainment. |
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School Cheating
Information:
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| Sites that promote plagiarism
or cheating by providing term papers, written essays, or exam answers. |
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Search Engines:
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| Sites that offer unfiltered,
unrestricted, unverified, search engines. |
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Search Terms:
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| This category restricts
access to search result pages based on key words that are known to return offensive
results, but does not block access to search engines. |
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Sex:
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| Sites that contain descriptions
or depictions of sexual acts, specifically those without the intent to arouse
(sites which contain material intended to arouse fall under the Pornography category).
Sexual merchandise and fetish sites fall under the Sex category. |
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Sports:
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| Sites that include updated
information about professional and collegiate sports, such as game scores, player
status, trades, and commentary. |
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Stocks:
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| Sites that include information
about stock trading, stock quotes, or the stock market. |
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Swimsuits:
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| Sites that contain photos
of models in swimwear, especially fashion swimwear photos. |
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Tasteless/Gross:
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| 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). |
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Tobacco:
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| Sites that advocate or promote
the recreational use of tobacco. |
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Violence:
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| 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. |
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Weapons:
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| Sites that contain information
about buying, making, modifying, or using weapons such as guns, knives, swords,
or ammunitions. |
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