About WebBlocker SurfControl Categories

• Sexually oriented or erotic full or partial nudity.
• Depictions or images of sexual acts, including inanimate objects used in a sexual manner.
• Erotic stories and textual descriptions of sexual acts.
• Sexually exploitive or sexually violent text or graphics.
• Bondage, fetishes, genital piercing.
• Adult products including sex toys, CD-ROMs, and videos.
• Adult services including videoconferencing, escort services, and strip clubs.
• Explicit cartoons and animation.

• Recipes, instructions or kits for manufacturing or growing illicit substances, including alcohol, for purposes other than industrial usage.
• Glamorizing, encouraging, or instructing on the use of, or masking the use of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, or other substances that are illegal to minors.
• Alcohol and tobacco manufacturers' commercial websites.
• Information on "legal highs": glue sniffing, misuse of prescription drugs or abuse of other legal substances.
• Distributing alcohol, illegal drugs, or tobacco free or for a charge.
• Displaying, selling, or detailing use of drug paraphernalia.

Not included in this category are sites that discuss medicinal drug use, industrial use, or public debate on the issue of legalizing certain drugs, or sites sponsored by a public or private agency that provides educational information on drug use.

• Online gambling or lottery websites that invite the use of real money.
• Virtual casinos and offshore gambling ventures.
• Virtual sports leagues and sports picks and betting pools.

• Lingerie, negligee, or swimwear modeling.
• Model fan pages; fitness models/sports celebrities.
• Fashion or glamour magazines online; clothing catalogs.
• Beauty and cosmetics.
• Modeling information and agencies.

• Pictures or text advocating the proper use of contraceptives, including condom use, the correct way to wear a condom, and how to put a condom in place.
• Sites relating to discussion about the use of the Pill, IUDs, and other types of contraceptives.
• Discussion sites on how to talk to your partner about diseases, pregnancy, and respecting boundaries.

Not included in the category are commercial sites that sell sexual paraphernalia. These sites are typically found in the Adult/Sexually Explicit category.

• Offensive or violent language, including through jokes, comics or satire.
• Excessive use of profanity or obscene gesticulation.

• Advocating, instructing, or giving advice on performing illegal acts such as phone, service theft, evading law enforcement, lock-picking, fraud, plagiarism/cheating, and burglary techniques.

• Promotion, instruction, or advice on the questionable or illegal use of equipment and/or software for purpose of hacking passwords, creating viruses, gaining access to other computers and/or computerized communication systems.
• Sites that provide workarounds for our filtering software.
• Cracked software.
• Pirated software download sites.
• Pirated multimedia download sites.

• Advocating or inciting degradation or attack of specified populations or institutions based on associations such as religion, race, nationality, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation.
• Promoting a political or social agenda that is supremacist in nature and exclusionary of others based on their race, religion, nationality, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation.
• Holocaust revisionist/denial sites.
• Coercion or recruitment for membership in a gang* or cult.**
• Militancy, extremist.

Not included are news, historical, or press incidents that may include the previous criteria (except in graphic examples).

* A gang is defined as a group whose primary activities are the commission of felonious criminal acts, which has a common name or identifying sign or symbol, and whose members individually or collectively engage in criminal activity in the name of the group.

** A cult is defined as a group whose followers have been deceptively and manipulatively recruited and retained through undue influence such that followers' personalities and behavior are altered. Leadership is all-powerful, ideology is totalistic, and the will of the individual is subordinate to the group. Sets itself outside of society.

• Portraying, describing or advocating physical assault against humans, animals, or institutions.
• Depictions of torture, mutilation, gore, or horrific death.
• Advocating suicide or self-mutilation.
• Instructions, recipes, or kits for making bombs or other harmful or destructive devices.
• Excessive use of profanity or obscene gesticulation.

We do not deny news, historical, or press incidents that may include the above criteria (except in graphic examples).

• Online purchasing or ordering information, including lists of prices and dealer locations.
• Any page or site predominantly containing, or providing links to, content related to the sale of guns, weapons, ammunition or poisonous substances.
• Displaying or detailing the use of guns, weapons, ammunition, or poisonous substances.

Weapons are defined as something (as a club, knife, or gun) used to injure, defeat, or destroy.

• Sites that provide or promote information gathering or tracking that is unknown to, or without the explicit consent of, the end user or the organization.
• Sites that carry malicious executables or viruses.
• 3rd party monitoring and other unsolicited commercial software.
• Spyware and Malware "Phone Home" destinations.

• Phishing.
• Phone service theft advice.
• Plagiarism & cheating, including the sale of research papers.

• Recipes, instructions or kits for manufacturing or growing illicit substances for purposes other than industrial use.
• Glamorizing, encouraging, or instructing on the use of or masking the use of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, or other substances that are illegal to minors.
• Information on "legal highs": glue sniffing, misuse of prescription drugs, or abuse of other legal substances.
• Distributing illegal drugs free or for a charge.
• Displaying, selling, or detailing use of drug paraphernalia.

• Television, movies, music, and video programming guides.
• Comics, jokes, movie, video, or sound clips.
• Discussion forums on television, movies, music, and videos.
• Online magazines and reviews on the entertainment industry.
• Circuses, theatre, variety magazines, and radio.
• Broadcasting firms and technologies (satellite, cable, etc.).
• Book reviews and promotions, publishing houses, comic books, and poetry.
• Jokes, comedians, any site designed to be funny or satirical.
• Online museums, galleries, artist sites (included sculpture, photography, etc.).
• Celebrity fan sites.
• Horoscopes.
• City Guides.

• Game playing or downloading; game hosting or contest hosting.
• Tips and advice on games or obtaining cheat codes ("cheatz").
• Journals and magazines dedicated to game playing.

• Recreational pastimes such as collecting, gardening, and kit airplanes.
• Outdoor recreational activities such as hiking, camping, and rock climbing.
• Tips or trends focused on a specific art, craft, or technique.
• Online publications on a specific pastime or recreational activity.
• Online clubs, associations, or forums dedicated to a hobby.

• Child-centered sites and sites published by children.

• Team or conference websites.
• National, international, college, and professional scores and schedules.
• Sports-related online magazines or newsletters.

• Streaming media files or events (any live or archived audio or video file).
• Internet TV and radio.

• Airlines and flight booking agencies.
• Accommodation information.
• Travel package listings.
• City guides and tourist information.
• Weather bureaus.
• Car Rentals

• Museums, galleries, artist sites (sculpture, photography, etc.).
• Performing arts (theatre, vaudeville, opera, symphonies, etc.).
• Dance companies, studios and training.
• Book reviews and promotions, variety magazines and poetry.

• Educational institutions, including pre-, elementary, secondary, and high schools; universities.
• Educational sites: pre-, elementary, secondary, and high schools; universities.
• Distance education and trade schools.
• Online teacher resources (lesson plans, etc.).
• Topic-specific search engines (e.g. anthropology).

• Homelife and family-related topics, including parenting tips, gay/lesbian/bisexual (non-pornographic sites), weddings, births, and funerals.
• Foreign cultures, socio-cultural information.

• Employment agencies, contractors, job listings, career information.
• Career searches, career-networking groups.

• Singles listings, matchmaking and dating services.
• Advice for dating or relationships; romance tips and suggestions.

• Churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship.
• Any faith or religious beliefs, including non-traditional religions such as Wicca and witchcraft.

• Philanthropic and charity orgs.
• Environmental orgs.
• Professional associations.
• Labor unions.
• Social orgs.

• Fashion or glamour magazines online.
• Beauty and cosmetics.

• Banner Ad Servers.

• Recipes, cooking instruction and tips, food products, and wine advisors.
• Restaurants, cafes, eateries, pubs, and bars.
• Food/drink magazines, reviews.
• Manufacturers and distillers.

• Car reviews, vehicle purchasing or sales tips, parts catalogs.
• Auto trading, photos, discussion of vehicles including motorcycles, boats, cars, trucks and RVs.
• Journals and magazines on vehicle modification, repair, and customization.
• Online automotive enthusiast clubs.

• Home, apartment, and land listings.
• Rental or relocation services.
• Tips on buying or selling a home.
• Real estate agents.
• Home improvement.

• Internet malls and online auctions.
• Department stores, retail stores, company catalogs online.
• Online downloadable product warehouses; speciality items for sale.
• Freeware, shareware, and software downloads.
• Freebies or merchandise giveaways.

• Web-based chat

• Reviews, information, buyer's guides of computers, computer parts and accessories, and software.
• Computer/software/Internet companies, industry news and magazines.
• Sites that design and/or maintain web pages, including individual web designers.
• Design and/or maintain web pages, including individual web designers.
• Personal storage or backup.
• Pay-to-Surf sites.

• Websites that host business and individuals' web pages.

• Remote proxies or anonymous surfing.
• Peer-to-peer sharing.

• Web-based Email accounts.

• Downloadable (non-streaming) movie, video or sound clips.
• Downloadable PDA software, including themes and graphics.
• Freeware and shareware sites.
• Personal storage or backup.
• Clip art, fonts and animated gif pages.

• Providers of mobile phone downloads, including:
• Ringtones
• Logos
• Backgrounds
• Screensavers
• Games

• Peer-to-peer file sharing clients.
• Peer-to-peer file sharing servers.

• URLs found in spam, including these topics:
• Computing
• Finance & Stocks
• Entertainment
• Games
• Health & Medicine
• Humor & Novelties
• Personal & Dating
• Products & Services
• Shopping
• Travel

• Content delivery networks.
• XML Reference Schemas.
• Web analytics and statistics services.
• Transaction servers.
• Corporate image servers.

• Newspapers online.
• Headline news sites, newswire services, and personalized news services.
• Weather sites.

• Weblog (blog) sites.
• Newsgroups.
• Opinion or discussion forums.

• Sites that provide resources for photo and image searches.

• General search engines (Yahoo, AltaVista, Google, AOL).

• Stock quotes, stock tickers, and fund rates.
• Online stock or equity trading.
• Investing advice or contacts for trading securities.
• Money management/investment services or firm.
• General finances and companies that advise thereof.
• Accountancy, actuaries, banks, mortgages, and general insurance companies.

• Government services such as taxation, armed forces, customs bureaus, emergency services.
• Local government sites.
• Political debate, canvassing, election information and results.
• Local, national, and international political sites.

• General health such as fitness and well-being.
• Alternative and complementary therapies.
• Medical information about ailments, conditions, and drugs.
• Medical reference.
• Hospital, medical insurance.
• Dentistry, optometry, and other medical-related sites.
• General psychiatry and mental well-being sites.
• Promoting self-healing of physical and mental abuses, ailments, and addictions.
• Psychology, self-help books, and organizations.

• Personal, professional, or educational reference.
• Online dictionaries, maps, and language translation sites.
• Census, almanacs, and library catalogues.
• Topic-specific search engines.

• Political parties.
• Political debate, canvassing, election information and results.
• Conspiracy theorist & alternative government views that are not hate-based.

• General business corporate websites.
• International and multi-national large general business corporate sites.
• Business Associations.
• Basic business sites, such as FedEx, that enable organizations to manage their necessary daily business tasks.