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Sample Web Content Filtering Catagories

February 14, 2011

Filtering – Catagories

Advertisement

This category is a list of servers used for ad banners and other forms of advertising. Examples: Accept, DoubleClick, Just Web Ads.

Arts & Entertainment

This category contains media sites that promote and provide information about television, movies, music, and video, broadcasting firms and technologies, and radio. Sites pertaining to print media include online magazines and reviews on the entertainment industry, circuses, theartre, variety magazines, book reviews and promotions, publishing houses, comics books and poetry. Artistic and miscellaneous sites such as online museums, galleries, artist sites, celebrity fan sites, horoscopes, and city guides are also included in the list. Examples: Art.com, Clip Art Server, Cartoon Factory Animation.

Chat

The Chat category includes all Web-based (via HTTP, not IRC) Chat groups, VoIP, telephony, Instant Messaging (IM) clients, and computer-related news sites. Chat rooms allow people to come together online to chat about current events, dating, particular interest and debates on hot topics. Examples include Chat.MSN, CyberLounge, HeadSpace, 2000teenchat. VoIP and telephony sites provide the ability to make and receive telephone calls. IM client include web sites that provide instant messaging capability over the internet, such as YahooWeb. Computer-related news sites include industry new and magazines about computer technology and the internet.

Computing

Internet communications, reviews/information, buyers guides of computers, computer parts, accessories, and software, computers/software/Internet companies, computer and internet security, shareware and freeware.

Crime

Advocating, instructing, or giving advice on performing illegal acts such as phone, service theft, evading law enforcement, lock-picking, fraud, plagiarism/cheating, burglary techniques, bomb making instructions, computer hacking, burglary, murders, rapes, etc. Also includes sites with get-rich-quick schemes, phishing and pharming sites designed to gather personal information, and sites advocating hate speech and crimes based on race, religion, gender, ethnic origin, etc.

Dating

Singles listings, matchmaking and dating services, advice for dating or relationships, romance tips and suggestions are all part of category. Examples: #1 Dating, Match Ranger.

Drugs

URLs in this category provide information on purchasing and using illegal or recreational drugs. Included are sites that contain recipes, instructions and kits for manufacturing or growing illicit substances, including alcohol, for purposes other than industrial usage. Also, sites that glamorize, encourage, or instruct on the use of or masking the use of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, or other substances that are illegal to minors, as well as all alcohol and tobacco manufacturers’ commercial websites. Sites that included information on “legal highs”: glue sniffing, misuse of prescription drugs or abuse of other legal substances is in this category. URLs about distributing alcohol, illegal drugs, or tobacco free or for a charge and displaying, selling, or detailing use of drug paraphernalia are also included. Examples: Cannabis.net, RecPharm Database.

NOTE:

Sites that include or discuss medicinal use, industrial hemp, and public debate on the issue of legalizing certain drugs are not included. Nor are sites that are sponsored by a public or private educational information on drug use.

Education

This category includes .edu sites, pre-/elementary ,secondary ,high schools , universities, distance education and trade schools .

Finance

The finance category includes sites dealing with stock quotes, stock tickers, fund rates ,online stock or equity trading. Also sites that offer investing advice or contacts for trading securities, money management investment services or firms, general finances and companies that advise thereof, accountancy, actuaries, banks, mortgages , and ,general insurance companies . Examples: E-trade, Ameritrade, Wells Fargo, TradingSolutions.

Food

Contains sites relating to food, home and garden and local information. Food sites include recipes, cooking instructions and tips, food products wine advisors food drink magazines and reviews of restaurants, cafes eateries pubs and bars. Home and garden sites include home maintenance, safety, decor and design, and home electronics. Local information includes city and tourist guides, including restaurants and local points of interest.

Gambling

The Gambling category contains URLs that encourage betting money or items on the outcome of games . It includes sites offering gaming, off shore gambling, bookmaker odds, lottery page, and bingo , as well as fantasy sports leagues. Examples: Online Casinos, Online Sports Betting, Super Blackjack, the New York Lottery Page.

Games

This category focuses on game playing or downloading; game hosting or contest hosting, tips and advice on games or obtaining cheta codes (cheatz), journals and magazines dedicated to game playing. Also includes online lotteries, sweepstakes, and giveaways. Examples: Games, Workshop, Shockwave, Interactive WWW games .

Glamour

Contains sites related to lingerie, negligee or swimwear, fashion or glamour magazines, and online cosmetics.

Government

Focuses on sites related to government services such as taxation, armed forces, custom bureaus, emergency services. International, national, local or state government sites, political debate, canvassing, election information and results, political philosophy, conspiracy and advocacy.

Hacking

Sites that provide work-around for filtering software, cracked software, pirated software, download sites and pirated multimedia download sites. Also key-loggers, web-surfing monitors, malware, spyware, adware and botnets.

Hate speech

this category includes sites that are advocating or inciting degradation or attack of specified populations or institutions based on associations such as religion, race, nationality, gender, age, disability, or n. also, sites that promote 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.

Health

Sites about general health such as fitness and well being. Also includes medical reference and procedures, self help, psychology, dentistry, medical insurance, nontraditional medicine,

Hobbies

Sites include recreational pastimes such as collecting, gardening and décor. Also, outdoor recreational activities such as hiking, camping, rock climbing and tips or trends focused on a specific art, craft, or technique. Online publications on a specific pastime or recreational activity, online clubs, association’s o rforums dedicated to hobby, pet sites, and traditional board or card games are also included in this category. Examples: Hobby.com, recreatio.gov, Online rec. center.

Jobs

Jobs contain sites concerned with anything from resume writing, interviewing, changing careers, to classified advertising. Large job databases, career development sites, and individual URLs within otherwise uncategorized sites that list job related Opportunities are included. Also included are online education and training and teacher resources. Examples: Dice.com, Employment Search Productions, Monster.com, CareersResume.

KIDS Sites

Sites specifically aimed at children under the age 12 years or published by children.

Lifestyle

URLs in this category may contain home life and family-related topics, including parenting tips, gay / lesbian / bisexual (non-pornographic sites), weddings, births, funerals, foreign cultures, social-cultural information. Examples: Family Search, World Guide to Vegetarianism, Homosexuality, Naturism.

Motor Vehicles

Includes car
reviews, vehicle purchasing, or sales tips, auto-trading clubs, and discussion groups on most any vehicle. Magazines on vehicle modification, repair and customization are also included.

News

URLs in this category include newspapers online, headline news sites, newswire services, personalized news services, weather sites, and aggregate news sights such as Yahoo or MSN. Also includes radio stations, magazines, and online newspapers. Examples: CNN, BBC, The Weather channel.

Photo Search

Includes sites that provide resources for photo and image searches and hosting.

Pornography

This category contains URLs that reference, discuss, or show sexually oriented or erotic full or partial nudity, depictions or images of sexual acts including animals or inanimate objects used in a sexual manner. Also, Erotic stories and textual descriptions of sexual acts, sexually exploitive or sexually violent text or graphics, nudist or naturist sites may be included. Adult products including sex toys, CD-ROMs, and videos, adult services including video conferencing, escort services, and strip clubs, and explicit cartoons and animation are also included in this category. Examples: Playboy, FancyPleasure, PORN USA, SuperSex of North America.

NOTE: URL’s regarding sexual health, breast cancer, or sexually transmitted diseases (except in graphic examples) are not included but can be included by adding them to a Custom URL Category.

Real Estate

This category contains sites listing homes, apartments, and / or land, and sites giving tips on buying or selling property. Home improvement sites and relocation services are also included.

Reference

Includes personal, professional, or educational references such as online dictionaries and maps, or any site providing statistics or facts.

Religion

Religion includes anything to do with churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship, any faith or religious beliefs, including non-traditional religions such as Wicca and witchcraft. Examples: Spiritual Spectrum, CARNAL

Remote Proxies

URLs in this category include remote proxies or anonymous surfing and sites providing information about bypassing proxy server features and web filters. Examples: LimeWire, KaZaA website.

Search Engines

This category contains general search engines. Examples: Yahoo, Google, Alta Vista

Sex Ed

Includes material of a sexual but informative nature such as reproduction, sexual development, safe sex practices and birth control. Also contains sites with abortion information, including pro-choice and pro-life sites.

Shopping

Internet malls and online auctions, department stores, retail stores, online company catalogs, and online, downloadable product warehouses. Specialty items for sale, freeware, shareware, and software downloads and freebies or merchandise giveaways are all included in this category. Examples: Pottery Barn, Mall.com, Best Buy.

Sports

This category contains URLs that reference team or conference websites, national, international, college, professional scores and schedules, hunting and fishing sites, gun clubs, and sports-related online magazines or newsletters. Examples: Sport.com, Sport Club.

Streaming Media

This category includes streaming media files or events and any live or achieved audio or video feed.

Travel

This category includes travel-related activities, such as airlines and flight booking agencies, accommodation information, travel package listings, weather bureaus and car rentals. Examples: Orbitz, Travelocity.

Usenet News

Contains personal sites and blogs, such as Facebook, Myspace and Blogspot.

Violence

This category includes sites that portray, describe or advocate physical assualt against humans, animals, or institutions. Also depictions of torture, mutilation, gore or horrific death, and sites advocating suicide or self-mutilation, instructions. Sites with recipes or kits for making bombs or other harmful or destructive devices and excessive use of profanity or obscene gesticulations are also included in this category. Example: The Stalking Page.

Weapons

URLs in this category include sites such as online purchasing or ordering information, including list 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 and display or detailing the use of gun, weapons, ammunition or poisonous substances. Example: Unlimited Weapons System.

NOTE: Weapons are defined as something used to injure, defeat, or destroy, such as a club, knife, or gun.

Web-Based Email

This category includes Web-based email accounts and SMS Messaging (e.g. Instant Messaging). Examples: Hotmail, Yahoo Messaging

Web Hosting

URLs in this category include websites that host business and individuals’ Web page or deliver third party content, such as Akamai. Examples: GeoCites, Earthlink.net and AOL.

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