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Content Filtering (8e6) Categories
Click on a category for description and sample sites.
Alcohol: Sites promoting the use of alcohol, including drink recipes, home brewing methodology, advertisements, etc.
Alternative Journals: Sites for non-mainstream periodicals, information on self-awareness, spirituality, healing arts, holistic living, junk culture, fringe media, art perspectives, etc.
Anarchy: Sites contain information regarding militias, weapons, anti-government groups, terrorism, overthrowing of the government, killing methods, etc.
Automobile: Sites of automobile manufacturers and dealers, sales, leasing, clubs, etc.
Banner Ads: Banner ads served from third party servers.
Chat: Chat sites accessed via the http protocol. Protects the children from predators.
Criminal Skills: Sites that promote illegal activity, such as pyrotechnics, computer hacking, credit card number generating, password cracking, surveillance and murder.
Cults/Gothic: Sites promoting cult or gothic subject matter, use of mind control, paranoia, fear, and any other type of psychological control or manipulation.
Drugs: Sites that promote the use or purchase of illegal drugs. These may include offering marijuana seeds for sale, growing methods, techniques and products for testing clean for drugs, information on acid and/or "mushrooms," and all other forms of narcotics.
Employment: Sites geared toward job-seekers, such as online bulletin boards, classified ad sites, resume listing services, head hunting firms, etc.
Entertainment: Sites containing such things as movies, theater times, comic strips, television, music, hobbies, and rock bands.
Financial: Sites related to the financial trade, such as stock trading, financial news, online banking services, and trading exchanges.
Free Hosts: Sites hosted by consumer oriented free hosts or ISPs, including members.aol.com and Geocities
Gambling: Sites which encourage gambling and/or playing games of chance such as betting sites, bookmaker odds, lottery, bingo, horse/dog track, online sports betting, online casinos, sweepstakes, etc.Sites which encourage gambling and/or playing games of chance such as betting sites, bookmaker odds, lottery, bingo, horse/dog track, online sports betting, online casinos, sweepstakes, etc.
Games: Sites related to computer or other games, such as game download sites and online game sites.
Hate and Discrimination: Sites that contain material related to the discrimination of any group of people based on race, religion, gender, nationality, etc.
Humor: Sites whose primary purpose is for comedy, jokes, fun, etc.
Lifestyle: Sites that contain material relative to an individual's personal life, whether straight, gay, lesbian, or otherwise; any site pertaining to any particular culture, behavior, organization, society, club, etc.
Magazine: Online magazines and online versions of print magazines except for those contained in other categories.
News: Sites relating to mainstream online news publications or any media format such as print, radio, or television.
Obscene/Tasteless: Sites that involve such things as mutilation, murder, bodily functions, horror, death, candid scenes, executions, violence, etc.
Opinion, Politics and Religion: Sites that pertain to politicians, election campaigns, opinion articles, political organizations, political publications, churches and related publications, discussion forums, and religions.
Personals/Dating: Sites that are related to personal ads, dating sites, dating services, relationships, introductions, etc.
PG-17: Short-cut category that includes all sites in Pornography, R-rated and Obscene/Tasteless.
Pornography: Sites that contain nudity of any sort, and vulgarity, such as Playboy, Hustler, and Penthouse.
R-Rated: Dating services pertaining to anything which involves 18 and over dating, lingerie and swimsuits, revealing pictures. Sites that are adult in nature without being explicitly pornographic.
Self-Help: Sites that include information such as diet, nutritional facts, therapies, counseling services, motivation, conferences, articles, etc.
Search Engines: Major portal sites that either search the Internet or have a directory-based database of sites. Includes all sub-URLs under the main site.
Shopping: Sites which contain consumer oriented online shopping, online malls, travel agencies, real estate, automobiles, classifieds, and online trading services.
Sports: Sites of the professional baseball, basketball, hockey, football & soccer teams, sports magazines, sporting events such as winter & summer Olympics, etc.
Streaming Media: Sites that offer "Internet TV" programming, MP3s, Internet Radio or other downloadable content such as album samples and movie trailers.
Tickets: Sites which offer ticket sales for entertainment: concerts, sporting events, races, expos, etc.
Travel: Sites that offer travel tickets and reservations, travel clubs, travelogues, visitor information bureaus, travel promotions, etc.
Web-based E-mail: Sites which offer free online web based e-mail services; this excludes ISPs which provide standard POP or IMAP e-mail accounts.
Web-based Newsgroups: Sites which offer archives of Usenet postings.
Web-based Proxies and Anonymizers: Sites which offer free anonymous proxy services.
Web-based Storage: Sites that offer storage for personal files on remote servers for backup or exchange purposes. |
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