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Adult/Sexually Explicit |
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Adult products including sex toys, CD-ROMs, and videos
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Child Pornography/Pedophilia
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Adult services including videoconferencing, escort services, and strip clubs
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Erotic stories and textual descriptions of sexual acts
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Explicit cartoons and animation
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Online groups, including newsgroups and forums, that are sexually explicit in nature
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Sexually-oriented or erotic full or partial nudity
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Depictions or images of sexual acts, including animals or inanimate objects used in a sexual manner
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Sexually exploitive or sexually violent text or graphics
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Bondage, fetishes, genital piercing
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Naturist sites that feature nudity
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Erotic or fetish photography, which depicts nudity
NOTE: We do not include sites regarding sexual health, breast cancer, or sexually transmitted diseases (except in graphic examples).
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Alcohol & Tobacco |
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Alcohol and tobacco promotional Web sites
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Distributing alcohol or tobacco free or for a charge
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Blogs & Forums |
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Weblog (blog) sites
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Newsgroups
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Opinion or discussion forums Business
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Chat |
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Web-based chat
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Instant Message servers
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Criminal Activity |
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Advocating, instructing, or giving advice on performing illegal acts
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Tips on evading law enforcement
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Lock-picking and burglary techniques
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Dating & Personals |
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Singles listings, matchmaking and dating services
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Advice for dating or relationships; romance tips and suggestions
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Gambling |
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Online gambling or lottery web sites that invite the use of real or virtual money
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Information or advice for placing wagers, participating in lotteries, gambling, or running numbers
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Virtual casinos and offshore gambling ventures
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Sports picks and betting pools
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Virtual sports and fantasy leagues that offer large rewards or request significant wagers
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Hacking |
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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
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Sites that provide instruction or work-arounds for filtering software
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Cracked software and information sites; Warez
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Pirated software and multimedia download sites
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Computer crime
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Illegal Drugs |
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Recipes, instructions or kits for manufacturing or growing illicit substances for purposes other than industrial usage
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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
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Information on "legal highs": glue sniffing, misuse of prescription drugs or abuse of other legal substances
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Distributing illegal drugs free or for a charge
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Displaying, selling, or detailing use of drug paraphernalia
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Intimate Apparel & Swimware |
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Lingerie, negligee and other intimate apparel modeling
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Swimwear modeling
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Model fan pages
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Modeling information and agencies
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Fitness models/sports celebrities
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Intolerance & Hate |
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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
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Promoting a political or social agenda that is supremacist in nature and/or exclusionary of others based on their race, religion, nationality, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation
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Holocaust revisionist/denial sites and other revisionist sites that encourage hate
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Coercion or recruitment for membership in a gang or cult
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Militancy, extremist
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Flagrantly insensitive or offensive material, including lack of recognition or respect for opposing opinions and beliefs
NOTE: We do not include news, historical, or press incidents that may include the above criteria (except in graphic examples).
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Peer-to-Peer |
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Peer-to-peer file sharing clients
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Peer-to-peer file sharing servers
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Phishing & Fraud |
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Phishing
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Phone, service theft advice
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Plagiarism & cheating, including the sale of research papers
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Proxies & Translators |
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Remote proxies or anonymous surfing
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Search engine caches that circumvent filtering
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Web-based translation sites that circumvent filtering
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Spam URLs |
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URLs found in spam, including these topics:
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Computing
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Finance & Stocks
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Entertainment
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Games
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Health & Medicine
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Humor & Novelties
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Personal & Dating
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Products & Services
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Shopping
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Travel
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Spyware |
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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
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Sites that carry malicious executables or viruses
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3rd party monitoring and other unsolicited commercial software
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Spyware and Malware "Phone Home" destinations
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Tasteless & Offensive |
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Offensive or violent language, including through jokes, comics or satire
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Excessive use of profanity or obscene gesticulation
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Violence |
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Portraying, describing or advocating physical assault against humans, animals, or institutions
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Depictions of torture, mutilation, gore, or horrific death
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Advocating, encouraging, or depicting self-endangerment, or suicide, including through eating disorders or addictions
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Instructions, recipes or kits for making bombs or other harmful or destructive devices
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Sites promoting terrorism
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Excessively violent sports or games (including video & online games)
NOTE: We do not block news, historical, or press incidents that may include the above criteria (except in graphic examples).
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Weapons |
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Online purchasing or ordering information, including lists of prices and dealer locations
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Any page or site predominantly containing, or providing links to, content related to the sale of guns, weapons, ammunition or poisonous substances
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Displaying or detailing the use of guns, weapons, ammunition or poisonous substances
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Clubs which offer training on machine guns, automatics and other assault weapons and/or sniper training
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Web-based Email |
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Web-based e-mail accounts
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Messaging sites (SMS, etc.)
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