Internet Filtering Database Categories:
The
NetSweeper Process Advantage
NetSweeper offers a unique
process for filtering content on the Internet. While others rely solely on human
reviewers to detect and
harvest Web content,
NetSweeper's proprietary process uses a unique combination of human review,
technology, and artificial
intelligence. This process
eliminates “over blocking” associated with denied access to sites regarding
breast cancer, sex education,
religion, and health.
Intelligent filtering - like the processes employed by NetSweeper- is the only
way to ensure accurate
categorization of Web content.
Listed
below are 27 categories of content that NetSweeper currently filters.
Alternative Lifestyles
URLs in this category tend to be
related to discussions or material relevant to an individual’s personal life
whether it is unique
character or orientation. Sites
in this category may include such things as the straight men’s groups, gay and
lesbian discussions,
senior citizen clubs,
transgender groups, vegetarianism or naturism.
Examples:
World
Guide to Vegetarianism
Naturism
- Promotion of
free lifestyles
Gay
Universe -
Guide to alternative lifestyles
Alternative Journals
Electronic magazines included in
the Alternative Journals category range from personal "EZines" to literary and
culturally oriented
publications. This category does
not include electronic forms of mainstream magazines and newspapers.
Examples:
Broken
Pencil - List
of alternative journals
Healing
Net -
Directory of healing events, and resource guide to holistic medicines
Spectrum
Magazine -
List of various alternative journals
Sunrise
Magazine -
Spirituality, crystals, and aromatherapy
Arts and
Culture
Virtual art galleries and other
cultural topics are contained within this category, such as museums and cultural
customs.
Examples:
Visual
Jazz Art Gallery
- Contemporary and fine art
Chat
This category includes Web-based
(via HTTP, not IRC) chat groups pertaining to several subjects. Chat rooms allow
people to come
together on-line to chat about
current events, debate hot topics and share common interests.
Examples:
Genealogy
Chat - Chat
pertaining to music, movies, travel, community, sports, and living
Cyber
Lounge -
Singles bars, sports rooms, dancing clubs, and hardcore adult
Head
Space -
Science-fiction discussions
Garden
Chat -
Gardening discussions
Criminal
Skills
This category includes
instructions or identification of methods to promote, encourage, or provide the
skills to commit illegal or
criminal activities. This
category includes examples such as bomb making instructions, lock picking,
computer hacking, burglary,
murder, and rape.
Examples:
Spectre
Page - Spying
information, computer hacking, bomb making, and CB scanner electronic warfare
Bank ATM
Secrets
The
Stalking Page
Guide to
lock picking
Entertainment
The entertainment category
includes URLs pertaining to things such as movies, television, music, hobbies,
clubs, and amusement
parks. URLs can be either fan
club style (for example, the Brad Pitt fan club) or sponsored by a company (for
example, Warner
Bros.). This category also
includes personal pages of movies and television shows.
Examples:
Internet
Movie Database
Hollywood
Online -
Information, photos, and movie reviews
Rock Web
- Bands, new
artists, and discussions
Aunt
Annie’s Craft Page
Extreme
Content
The extreme category includes
URLs that are often pushed to the limit in their respective categories. These
URLs are typically
extremely violent, gory, or
horrific in nature and may be related to sex, bodily functions, obscenity, or
perverse activities.
Examples:
Pixman’s
Vault of Porn Pix
- Contains extreme hardcore pornography
Bizaree &
Maximum Perversum
- Sex site with extreme and bizarre pornography
The Butt
Page - Rectal
foreign body page
Chip’s
Barazite -
Child pornography, pictures of cadavers, and mutilated hands and arms
Gambling
The gambling category contains
URLs that encourage the gambling of money or other materialistic items. It
includes sites offering
gaming, bookmaker odds, lottery
pages, and bingo.
Examples:
On-line
Casinos
On-line
Sports Betting
Super
Blackjack
The New
York Lottery Page
General
News
The general news category
applies to most online news and mainstream trade publications, such as business
and medical journals.
Examples:
Wall
Street Journal
JAMA
USA Today
Advertising Page
Hate
Speech
This category is dedicated to
any sort of propaganda which would encourage the oppression of one specific
group of individuals.
This category includes such
things as derogatory speech against women, visible minorities, or slander
against the disabled.
Examples:
Ku Klux
Klan Page
Aryan
Nations
National
Socialist Movement
Did Six
Million Really Die?
Humour
Sites
The humour category includes
sites that intend to be comical or funny. The sites include general jokes, comic
pages or comedy
clubs.
Examples:
Best
Jokes of 1995, 1996, 1997
Comedy
Net
College
Humor Page
Illegal
Drugs
URLs in this category provide
information on the purchase and use of illegal or recreational drugs.
Examples:
Utopia -
Drugs on the
NET
RecPharm
Database -
Database of recreational drugs
Note:
The Illegal Drugs category does not filter out information on prescription
drugs.
Job
Search
This rapidly growing category
includes anything related to a job search. It includes sites concerned with
resume writing,
interviewing, careers,
classified advertising, and job databases. It also includes individual URLs
within otherwise uncategorized
sites listing opportunities.
Examples:
Career
Mosaic -
Employers, networking, resume writing, job fairs, and more
Rensselaer Career Development Centre -
Career resource, resume book,
job database, and more.
Employment Search Productions -
Offers videos that help in the
interviewing and job search process.
Career
Resume -
Online resume writing service
Match
Making
This category is comprised of
topics related to dating services and relationships. This includes listings or
personal advertisements,
tips for attracting a companion,
and on-line dating services.
Examples:
Together
Dating - One
of the original online dating services
Shy Man’s
Guide to Success with Women
Doggie
Dating -
Finding a mate for your Dog
Occults
This category includes any URLs
that contain topics about the occult, cults, and other extremist’s views.
Examples:
On-line
Guide to Major Cults
Info-Cult
- Helping
families of cult members
Hell-On-Line -
Guide to Satanism
Online
Games
This category consists of URLs
focusing on traditional board games, role-playing games such as Battleship and
Dungeon &
Dragons. This category also
includes any URL that promotes game makers such as Mattel.
Examples:
Hasbro
Toys
Battleship
Interactive WWW Games
Online
investing
The investing category includes
sites that deal with personal investments and investment options. URLs in this
category include
stock quotes, money management
forums, online publications, discount brokerage services, trading stocks, mutual
funds, and
portfolio management.
Examples:
Stock
Investing Advice Book
Prudential Securities
National
Discount Brokers Online
Money
Management by Mail
Online
Portals
This category includes sites
that provide a portal based navigation system from which users can select a
broad range of topics.
Examples:
Yahoo
Altavista
MSN
Netscape
Online
Sales
This category includes the sale
of any form of merchandise or service that will benefit the individual only,
such as the sale of
clothing, accessories,
appliances, or pets. This category may also overlap into other categories such
as the sale of sex
merchandise, sports memorabilia,
and hate speech paraphernalia. It includes market promotions and catalogue
selling (for
instance, LL Bean).
Examples:
Mall of
the Internet
1st Net
Zing Mall
Net Buys
On-line Shopping Network
The
Virtual World Mall -
Allows you to shop stores worldwide
Political
Sites
Any form of discussion that
covers topics related to, but not limited to: politics, religion, social values,
and other non work related
topics.
Examples:
Politics
Now - Latest
political updates
Spiritual
Spectrum -
Discussions of spiritual issues
CARNAL -
California
Abortion and Reproductive Action League
Canadian
Pulse Online -
Debates regarding politics
Safe
Sites
When a web site does not meet
any of the above categories, it is deemed as safe since it does not contain any
offensive material.
Examples:
Disney.com
Search
Engine
This category includes sites
that are used to search the Internet.
Examples:
Google
Altavista
Excite
Yahoo
Self Help
This category includes anything
either medically, organically, or support-based, that will improve an
individual’s health. This
category ranges from new
medications and therapies to support groups.
Examples:
Ask the
Dietitian -
Advice on health and diet questions
Friends
in Recovery -
List of recovery related sites including AA world
Divorce
Care - Support
for divorcees
Teen Help
- Provides
information to help your teen on drugs
Sex
This category contains URLs that
reference, discuss, or show pornography, pictures or videos of sex, or sexually
oriented material.
This will range from all
discussions of sex (including for example, sexually transmitted diseases, safe
sex, and teen pregnancy),
bikini-clad women and men,
nudity, soft and hard-core pornography, sadomasochism, bestiality, and child
pornography, etc...
Examples:
PORN USA
Super Sex
of North America
Bikinis
Wee - Women in
bikinis
Sports
This category includes any
discussions or topics related to sports, including sports teams, sport
discussions, sports scores, and
sports merchandise.
Examples:
ESPNET
Sport zone
The Pro
Football Expert
- Provides football forecasting and statistical information
Sports
Line USA -
Sports news, merchandise, contests
All
Sports -
Features current news, odds, scores, and real-time chat with current players and
coaches
Technology sites
This category includes sites
that pertain to technology related content.
Examples:
Slashdot
CNET
ZDNET
Microsoft
Travel
This category includes travel
and travel-related activities. Some of the URLs covered in this category include
discussions of favorite
travel destinations, travel
reservation services, discount travel listings, special events in various
cities, and sightseeing guides.
Examples:
Internet
Travel Network -
Reservations and flight options
1800FlyCheap -
Discount travel
Interactive Travel Guide
Alaska One -
Travel guides, parks and
recreation
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