26 July 2003
N2H2 thinks kids should be kept away from CNN, CBS, Yahoo, Altavista, Seattle Times, E-Bay and Amazon but favors youngsters enjoying the Kenneth Starr report, for it "contains material that may belong to another category, such as Pornography, but that is strictly in text or spoken word format."
http://www.n2h2.com/products/categories.php
(26 July 2003)
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of Web content. While others rely solely on technology to detect and harvest
Web content, N2H2's proprietary process uses a unique combination of technology
and human review. This process reduces frustrations associated with "keyword
blocking" methods including denied access to sites regarding breast cancer,
sex education, religion, and health. Effective human review - like the processes
employed by N2H2 - is the only way to ensure accurate categorization of Web
content.
The links below are examples of the potentially objectionable content that is filtered by our technology. Certain users may find the material on those pages offensive.
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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."
Examples:
http://www.riddler.com/
http://community.parachat.com/adult.html
http://www.match.com/
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.
Examples:
http://www.realbeer.com/
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/drinks.html
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.
Examples:
http://www.ebay.com/
http://auctions.yahoo.com/
http://auctions.amazon.com/
Chat
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.
Examples:
http://www.talkcity.com/
http://www.icq.com/community/chat.html
http://www.easy-chat.com/
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.
Examples:
http://www.hightimes.com/
http://ecstasy.org/
Electronic
Commerce
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.
Examples:
http://www.amazon.com/
http://www.cdnow.com/
Employment
Search
Sites that provide direct access to employment resources, such as job listings.
Examples:
http://www.monsterboard.com/
http://www.hotjobs.com/
Free Mail/Web Mail
Sites that offer Web-based e-mail accounts. Web Mail sites can expose users
to harmful content delivered via e-mail file attachments.
Examples:
http://www.hotmail.com/
http://www.netaddress.com/
http://mail.yahoo.com/
Gambling
Sites that provide online gambling, casino games, and information relevant
to gambling such as gambling links, tips, sports picks, etc.
Examples:
http://www.intercasino.com/
http://www.luckyrollcasino.com/index2.html
http://www.casinolee.com/
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.
Examples:
http://www.gamesdomain.com/
http://www.excite.com/games/
http://www.zone.com/
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.
Examples:
http://www.stormfront.org/
http://www.godhatesfags.com/
http://www.whitepride.com/
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.
Examples:
http://darron.net/family/think/stealthisbook.html#2.08.5
http://come.to/anarchy/
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_cultivation1.shtml
Jokes
Sites that post jokes, humorous stories, or other forms of humor.
Examples:
http://www.netfunny.com/
http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/jokes/
http://dobhran.com/humor/GRhumor274.htm
Lingerie
Sites that provide photos of models wearing lingerie, underwear, or otherwise
scant attire.
Examples:
http://www.threewisheslingerie.com/
http://www.victoriassecret.com/
Loopholes
Sites filtered because they open a loophole that can be exploited to access
pages which would otherwise be filtered out from your service. Unless this
category is selected, the system's Internet Content Filtering protection
can be compromised.
Examples:
http://www.kaza.com
http://www.loopholesoftware.com/
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache
Message/Bulletin Boards
Sites that permit messages to be posted and read immediately or daily message
posts.
Examples:
http://www.oregonlive.com/forums/
http://www.waynesvillecycle.com/wwwboard/faq.html
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.
Examples:
http://www.tornadohills.com/dahmer/
http://crimelibrary.com/
http://www.celebritymorgue.com/
News
Sites that contain material reported in a newspaper, periodical, or a newscast,
whether it is current or archived.
Examples:
http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.seattletimes.com/
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).
Examples:
http://carolinafoothills.com/
http://www.bodyscapes.com/
Personal Information
Sites that gather personal information (such as name, address, credit card
number, school, or personal schedules) that may be used for malicious intent.
Examples:
http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/santacall/
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/9956/wam.html
http://www.billyworld.com/blackbook/blackbook.html
Personals
Sites that contain personal advertisements, including information about
mail-order brides, dating services, escort services, or pen pals.
Examples:
http://personals.yahoo.com/
http://www.match.com/
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.
Examples:
http://www.clublove.com/
http://www.porno.com/
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.
Examples:
http://www.krug.org/unit/scripts/dogs.html
http://www.theonion.com/archive/archive_kornfeld.html
Recreation/Entertainment
Sites that contain information about various recreation and entertainment
pursuits such as motion pictures, television shows (excluding News and Sports),
theatre productions and music.
Examples:
http://www.thestranger.com/current/calendar_toc.html
http://www.moviefone.com/
http://www.cbs.com
School Cheating
Information
Sites that promote plagiarism or cheating by providing term papers, written
essays, or exam answers.
Examples:
http://www.schoolsucks.com/
http://www.essayxstacy.com/
Search Engines
Sites that offer unfiltered, unrestricted, unverified, search engines.
Examples:
http://www.altavista.com/
http://www.lycos.com/
http://www.yahoo.com/
Search Terms
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.
Examples:
Examples of these key words are very offensive, so are not included here.
Sex
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.
Examples:
http://www.handbooktogreatsex.com/
http://members.aol.com/Sebringsil/
http://www.joaniblank.com/sexuality.htm
Sports
Sites that include updated information about professional and collegiate
sports, such as game scores, player status, trades, and commentary.
Examples:
http://espn.go.com/
http://www.nhl.com/
Stocks
Sites that include information about stock trading, stock quotes, or the
stock market.
Examples:
http://dynamic.international.nasdaq.com/
http://www.rightstock.com/
Swimsuits
Sites that contain photos of models in swimwear, especially fashion swimwear
photos.
Examples:
http://www.swimslim.com/
http://www.kiana.com/
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).
Examples:
http://www.joecartoon.com/
http://www.doodie.com
http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case80.html
Tobacco
Sites that advocate or promote the recreational use of tobacco.
Examples:
http://www.smokers.com/
http://www.finckcigarcompany.com/
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.
Examples:
http://www.fangoria.com
http://www.carpenoctem.tv/killers/
Weapons
Sites that contain information about buying, making, modifying, or using
weapons such as guns, knives, swords, or ammunitions.
Examples:
http://www.zmweapons.com/
http://www.cfiarms.com/
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.
Examples:
http://geocities.yahoo.com/
http://angelfire.lycos.com/
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.
Examples:
http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/photos/death.htm
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
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.
Examples:
http://disney.go.com/
http://www.alfy.com/
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.
Examples:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/whreport.htm
http://shamash.org/holocaust/
http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html
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.
Examples:
http://www.dryoho.com/
http://fbhc.org/modules/breastcancer.cfm
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.
Examples:
http://pub40.ezboard.com/fteencentralsmessageboardjusttosayhi/
http://www.neopets.com/neochat.phtml
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.
Examples:
http://at.nifty.org/nifty/
http://www.thestarrreport.org/ken_starr/index.html
http://www.amazontrails.com/xena/theconquerorstouch.htm