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Alcohol (al)
This category includes URLs that sell, promote, or advocate the use of
alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine, and hard liquors.
Anonymizers (an)
This category includes URLs that enable anonymous Web browsing through an
intermediary to prevent unauthorized parties from gathering personal
information, but also allow users access to any Web page and bypass blocking
software. Pages that provide free proxy IP addresses are also included in this
category.
Anonymizing Utilities (au)
This category includes Web page language translators and Web-page-caching
utilities that could be used as anonymizers, without the express purpose of
bypassing filtering software.
Art/Culture/Heritage (ac)
Web sites in this category contain virtual art galleries, artist sites
(including sculpture and photography), and other cultural topics, such as museums, ethnic customs and country
customs.
Auction (eb)
This category includes URLs that offer access to online auctions. Online
auctions are rarely monitored; therefore these sites may expose users to
material that would otherwise be filtered under categories such as Pornography,
Weapons, Nudity, or Violence.
Business (bu)
This category includes URLs that provide information, services, or products
that help other businesses plan, manage, and market their enterprises. Also
included are pyramid schemes and multilevel marketing ventures. This category
may also be used as an exception to allow access to sites that have a business
focus, but may belong to other categories such as Shopping/Merchandizing,
Auction, Travel, etc.
Chat (ch)
This category includes sites that provide social posting and receiving of
real-time messages. This includes public or private chat rooms and chat
software downloads such as IRC that allow twoway messaging.
Computing/Internet (ci)
This category includes URLs that provide businesses and individuals with
reviews, information, and buyer’s guides for computers, and computer parts and
accessories, and software, Web Hosting sites, Domain Names for Sale
sites/Registrars, computer and Internet periodicals and information, tutorials,
clipart, fonts, and animated gif pages.
Consumer Information (cm)
This category includes URLs that provide information that enhances consumer
awareness about such topics as comparing products and businesses, regional
information, transportation schedules, maps, driving directions, weather, and
the availability of government services such as fire and police departments.
Criminal Skills (cs)
This category includes URLs that either provide instructions for or identify
methods to promote, encourage, or provide the skills to commit illegal or
criminal activities. These include bomb-making, phreaking (breaching phone
security or phone service theft), consumer scams and fraud, terrorism, evading law enforcement, stalking, lock
picking, passing urine tests and selling pirated material, commercial software,
music, videos, or fake IDs.
Dating/Social (mm)
This category includes URLs that focus on social interaction; including online
dating, friendship, school reunions, pen-pals, escort services, introductions
to potential foreign spouses, etc. Many of these sites host member profiles and
facilitate social interaction among the members.
Drugs (dr)
Sites in this category provide information on the purchase, manufacture, and
use of illegal or recreational drugs. This includes displaying, selling, or
detailing the use of drug paraphernalia, as well as tips on legal highs, such
as glue sniffing, the misuse of prescription drugs, or the abuse of other legal
substances.
Education/Reference (ed)
This category includes Web pages devoted to academic subject matter such as
math, history, science, literature, and general reference sites like online
dictionaries and atlases. Also included are home pages of colleges,
universities, and K-12 schools. This category may also be used as an exception
to allow access to sites that may belong to another category, such as Sexual
Materials, Nudity, or Violence, but relate to an educational topic such as
classic literature, history, art, or sex education.
Entertainment/Recreation/Hobbies (et)
The entertainment category includes URLs devoted to movies, television, music,
hobbies, horoscopes, Online greeting cards, or amusement parks.
Extreme (ex)
This category is used in conjunction with Gruesome Content, Hate Speech,
Politics/Opinion, Pornography, Violence, or Game/Cartoon Violence to identify
URLs that are at the outer limits of these categories, being gory, perverse, or
horrific in nature. An example is child pornography, which would have both the
Pornography and Extreme categorization.
Finance (fi)
Sites in this category include information about business-related or personal
banking, money management, such as 401 Ks, credit unions, mutual funds, as well
as online financial publications.
For Kids (fk)
Soon available on all platforms* This category includes family-safe sites that
are designed specifically for children (approximately ages ten and under). This category may also be
used as an exception to allow access to sites that
have a primary educational or recreational focus for children but belong to
other categories such as Games, Entertainment/Recreation/hobbies,
Art/Culture/Heritage, etc.
Forum/Bulletin Boards (mb)
This category includes URLs that include forums that permit messages to be
posted and read immediately. This excludes message forums with a business or
technical support focus (see Technical/Business Forums (tf)).
Gambling (gb)
This category includes sites that allow users to wager or place bets online or
provide gambling software that allows online betting i.e. casino games, betting
pools, sports betting etc.
Gambling Related (gr)
Soon available on all platforms* This category includes information relevant to
gambling, without providing the means to do so. Examples include gambling
links, tips, sports picks, lottery results, as well as horse, car or boat
racing, etc.
Game/Cartoon Violence (cv)
Soon available on all platforms* This category is specific to fantasy or
fictitious representations of violence within the context of games, comics,
cartoons, or graphic novels. This includes images and textual descriptions of
physical assaults or hand-to-hand combat, as well as grave injury and
destruction caused by weapons or explosives. Sites showing the outer end of
this spectrum, such as depictions of torture, gore, or horrific death, are also
rated as Extreme.
Games (gm)
This category includes URLs that offer online games and related information
such as cheats, codes, demos, and emulators. The Games category also includes
online contests or role-playing games, in addition to URLs that focus on
traditional board games, reviews, and sites that promote game manufacturers.
Fantasy virtual sport leagues may also be included in the Gambling category, in
combination with the Games and Sports categories.
General News (nw)
The general news category applies to most online news and mainstream
publications, such as business, trade, and medical journals, as well as high
school and university newspapers. It also includes headline-news sites,
newswire services, and proprietary news services.
Government/Military (gv)
This category includes URLs with information from world-wide governmental
institutions, and armed forces Home pages.
Gruesome Content(tg)
This category includes URLs with 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).
Hacking (hk)
This category includes URLs that distribute information and hacking tools (root
kits, kiddy scripts, etc.) that help individuals gain unauthorized access to computer systems.
Hate Speech (hs)
This category is dedicated to any sort of information that would encourage the
oppression of a specific group of individuals. This includes promoting,
explicitly or implicitly, an agenda against groups based on race, religion,
nationality, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation.
Health (hl)
This category contains URLs with topics designed to improve an individual's
well-being. Sites may provide information on new medications, alternative
medicine, medically related sex or drug therapies, fitness, mental health,
parenting, or support groups. This category may also be used as an exception to
allow access to sites that have a medical focus but may belong to another
category such as Nudity, Sexual Materials, Gruesome Content, etc.
History (hi)
Soon available on all platforms* This category may be used as an exception to
allow access to sites that are non-fictional and historically significant,
which may belong to other categories such as Politics/Opinion, Sexual
Materials, Violence, etc. This category is designed specifically for content
that may be suitable for a mature classroom environment.
Humor (hm)
The humor category includes URLs that intend to be comical or funny. These
sites include general jokes, comic pages, and comedy clubs.
Information Security (io)
Soon available on all platforms* This category includes URLs that have a
legitimate purpose to provide information about data protection, but in doing
so present a risk that the information provided may be exploited by users in
order to breach security or commit unlawful acts. This applies to detailed
information intended to safeguard business or personal data, intellectual
property, privacy, and infrastructure on the Internet, private networks, or in
other bandwidth services such as telecommunications.
Instant Messaging (im)
URLs in this category provide access and/or software that allow people to
communicate in "real time" over the Internet. The software often allows file
transfer and tracking of when other people log on and off of the Internet.
Interactive Web Applications (ia)
Soon available on all platforms* This category includes URLs that provide
access to live or interactive Web applications such as browser-based office
suites and Groupware. Interactive Web applications can present security risks
such as leaking or loss of proprietary data. Sites categorized as Interactive
Web Applications include those with business, academic, or individual focus.
Sites providing access to interactive Web applications that do not take
critical user data or offer security risks; i.e. Google Maps are excluded.
Internet Radio/TV (ir)
URLs in this category provide software and/or access to continuous broadcasting
of radio and TV programming.
Job Search (js)
This category includes URLs related to a job search. It encompasses sites
concerned with resume writing, interviewing, changing careers, classified
advertising, and large job databases. It also includes corporate Web pages
listing job openings.
Malicious Sites (ms)
Sites in this category deploy code that has been designed specifically to
hijack your computer's settings or activity.
Media Download (mp)
This category includes URLs that provide files to download such as MP3s,
videos, movie collections, and others.
Messaging (mg)
Soon available on all platforms* This category includes URLs that provide
streaming messaging services such as computer to mobile phone text-messaging
via SMS (Short Message Service) or MMS (Multimedia Message Service) or computer to fax machine messaging.
Mobile Phone (mo)
This category includes URLs that provide software or utilities for mobile
phones that can downloaded from Websites and delivered to mobile phones.
Examples include Ringtones, Logos/skins, games, screen-savers, text-based
tunes, iMODE, and software for SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multimedia
Message Service), and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol).
Moderated (mr)
Soon available on all platforms* This category may be used as an exception to
allow access to bulletin boards, chat sites, or search engines where the author
or publisher of these sites state that efforts are made to prevent offensive
material from being posted or delivered.
Non-Profit Organizations/Advocacy Groups (np)
This category includes URLs for non-profit and advocacy groups. These groups
are generally incorporated organizations that exist for educational or
charitable reasons. They fulfill a stated mission, benefiting the larger
community. Shareholders or trustees do not benefit financially.
Nudity (nd)
This category includes URLs that have non-pornographic images of the bare human
body. Classic sculpture and paintings, artistic nude photographs, some naturism
pictures, and detailed medical illustrations are included in the Nudity
category.
P2P/File Sharing (pn)
Soon available on all platforms* This category includes the exchange of files
between computers and users for business or personal use. An example of P2P use
is downloadable, shared music. P2P clients allow users to search for and
exchange files from a peer-user network. They often include SpyWare or
real-time chat capabilities. P2P may offer bandwidth usage risks, or allow
users to compromise network security by distributing proprietary or sensitive
data outside a secured network.
Personal Network Storage (ns)
This category includes sites that allow users to upload folders and files to an
online network server. Personal network storage is a valuable service allowing
users to backup, share, edit, or retrieve files or folders from any Web
browser. They do offer risks, such as proprietary or sensitive data can be
uploaded outside a secured network, or offensive and illegal content may be
stored and distributed.
Personal Pages (pp)
This category includes personal home pages that share a common domain such as
those hosted by ISPs, University/Education servers, Free Web Page hosts, etc.
Blogging sites are also included. Personal home pages present a risk to viewers
because content ranges from harmless to offensive, yet these pages are not
highly trafficked, making them difficult to categorize and provide coverage for
each personal page.
Phishing (ph)
Soon available on all platforms* This category includes sites that typically
arrive in hoax e-mail established only to steal users' account information.
These sites falsely represent themselves as legitimate company Web sites in
order to deceive and obtain user account information that can be used to
perpetrate fraud or theft.
Politics/Opinion (po)
This category includes URLs covering political parties, individuals in
political life, and opinion on various topics.
Pornography (sx)
This category includes URLs that contain materials that are intended to be
sexually arousing or erotic. This includes fetish pages, animation, cartoons,
stories, and child pornography.
Portals Sites (ps)
This category includes URLs that serve as a starting point for users when they
get connected to the Web. These sites serve as major gateways or directories to
content on the Web.
Profanity (pr)
This category includes URLs that contain crude, vulgar, or obscene language or
gestures.
Provocative Attire (pa)
This category includes URLs with pictures that include alluring or revealing
attire, lingerie and swimsuits, or supermodel photo collections but do not
involve nudity.
Religion and Ideology (ri)
Sites in this category have to do with religious topics and beliefs in human
spirituality.
Remote Access (ra)
Sites in this category provide information about gaining remote access to a
program, online service or an entire computer system. While often used
legitimately by people who want to use their computer from a remote location,
it also creates a potential security risk. Backdoor access is often written by
the original programmer.
Resource sharing (rs)
URLs in this category provide software that allows users to share computer
resources; this can be on company or international basis. Well-known examples
are the SETI program and the Human Genome Project, which use the computer
downtime of thousands of volunteers to analyze data.
School Cheating Information (sc)
This category includes URLs that promote plagiarism or cheating by providing
term papers, written essays, or exam answers.
Search Engines (se)
This category includes URLs that offer unfiltered, unrestricted, unverified,
search engine results.
Sexual Materials (sm)
This category includes sites with sexual innuendo, humor, ecommerce,
educational or medical 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.
Shareware/Freeware (sw)
Sites in this category provide repositories of download copies of shareware and
freeware. Shareware is distributed on the basis of an honor system. Most
shareware is delivered free of charge, but the author usually requests that you
pay a small fee if you like the program and use it regularly. Freeware is
software that is available without any cost.
Shopping/Merchandizing (os)
This category may be used to enhance productivity by keeping employees from
purchasing products and services online. This includes URLs that specifically
sell products or services online. Many Online Shopping sites pose a risk to
users by offering access to items that would normally be filtered under other
categories such as Pornography, Weapons, Nudity, or Violence.
Spam Email URLs (su)
Soon available on all platforms* This category includes URLs that arrive in
unsolicited SPAM emails. These are harvested directly from user’s email
inboxes.
Sports (sp)
This category includes URLs related to sports, such as: sports teams, sport
discussions, and sports scores. Fantasy football leagues may also be included
in this category, sometimes in combination with the Gambling category.
Spyware (sy)
This category includes URLs that download software that covertly gathers user
information through the user's Internet connection, without his or her
knowledge, usually for advertising purposes. This may be considered a violation
of privacy and may have bandwidth and security implications. These practices
are not part of the normal practice of software registration. This category is
mainly populated using expert 3rd party information.
Stock Trading (in)
This category is designed to stop users from trading stock at work or accessing
tickertape information. It should not prevent people from doing business
research on the web.
Streaming Media (st)
This category includes URLs that provide streaming media, or contain software
plugins that allow the displaying of audio and visual data before the entire
file has been transmitted. Excess data is saved in a buffer.
Technical/Business Forums (tf)
Soon available on all platforms* This category includes sites with a technical
or business focus that provide online message posting or real-time chat such as
technical support or interactive business communication.
Text/Spoken Only (to)
Soon available on all platforms* This category may be used as an exception
category to allow explicit text and recorded material to be accessed when
graphical content may be blocked using the Pornography, Violence, or Sexual
Materials categories. Libraries or Universities in particular may wish to
utilize this category, as it will focus Web filtering on offensive graphics
that may be displayed in their public facilities.
Tobacco (tb)
This category includes URLs that sell, promote, or advocate the use of tobacco
products, including cigarettes, cigars, and pipe and chewing tobacco.
Travel (tr)
This category includes airline Web sites, travel-booking agencies, and other
travel-related information, such as tourist highlights and special events in
various cities.
Usenet news (na)
The Usenet News category includes URLs that provide Web access to Usenet news
groups and archives of files uploaded to newsgroups.
Violence (vi)
The violence category includes real or lifelike images or text that portray,
describe, or advocate physical assaults against humans, animals, or
institutions (for example: depictions of war, suicide, mutilation,
dismemberment). Sites showing the outer end of this spectrum, such as depictions of torture,
gore, or horrific death, are also rated as Extreme.
Visual Search Engine (vs)
This category includes URLs that provide image-specific search results such as
thumbnail pictures.
Weapons (we)
This category includes URLs that provide information about buying, making,
modifying, or using weapons such as guns, knives, swords, as well as ammunition
or explosives. Weapons pages may highlight personal or military use.
Web Ads (wa)
This category includes URLs that provide ad-hosting or programs that create
advertisements. For example: links, source code or applets for banners,
pop-ups, and other kinds of static or dynamically generated ads that appear on
Web pages.
Web Mail (wm)
URLs in this category provide access to email. Web Mail sites can expose users
to harmful content delivered via e-mail file attachments.
Web Phone (wp)
This category includes sites that enable users to make telephone calls via the
Internet or obtain information or software for this purpose. Web Phones are
also called Internet Telephony, or Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Web
phone service includes PC-to-PC, PC-to-phone, and phone-to-phone services
connecting via TCP/IP networks.
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