Safe Surfing Filter Glossary

This is a glossary of terms that describes in detail the filtering option categories available with Iprotect DSL Intenet Service. It is your option to choose to block or allow access to these categories of web sites and content when you setup your account. With verification, you may change the access to these categories at any time.

This category includes URLs that sell, promote, or advocate the use of alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine, and hard liquors.

This category includes URLs that enable anonymous Web browsing through an intermediary to prevent unauthorized parties from gathering personal information, but also allow users access to any Web page and bypass blocking software. Pages that provide free proxy IP addresses are also included in this category.

This category includes Web page language translators and Web-page-caching utilities that could be used as anonymizers, without the express purpose of bypassing filtering software.

Web sites in this category contain virtual art galleries, artist sites (including sculpture and photography), and other cultural topics, such as museums, ethnic customs and country customs.

This category includes URLs that offer access to online auctions. Online auctions are rarely monitored; therefore these sites may expose users to material that would otherwise be filtered under categories such as Pornography, Weapons, Nudity, or Violence.

This category includes URLs that provide information, services, or products that help other businesses plan, manage, and market their enterprises. Also included are pyramid schemes and multilevel marketing ventures. This category may also be used as an exception to allow access to sites that have a business focus, but may belong to other categories such as Shopping/Merchandizing, Auction, Travel, etc.

This category includes sites that provide social posting and receiving of real-time messages. This includes public or private chat rooms and chat software downloads such as IRC that allow twoway messaging.

This category includes URLs that provide businesses and individuals with reviews, information, and buyer’s guides for computers, and computer parts and accessories, and software, Web Hosting sites, Domain Names for Sale sites/Registrars, computer and Internet periodicals and information, tutorials, clipart, fonts, and animated gif pages.

This category includes URLs that provide information that enhances consumer awareness about such topics as comparing products and businesses, regional information, transportation schedules, maps, driving directions, weather, and the availability of government services such as fire and police departments.

This category includes URLs that either provide instructions for or identify methods to promote, encourage, or provide the skills to commit illegal or criminal activities. These include bomb-making, phreaking (breaching phone security or phone service theft), consumer scams and fraud, terrorism, evading law enforcement, stalking, lock picking, passing urine tests and selling pirated material, commercial software, music, videos, or fake IDs.

This category includes URLs that focus on social interaction; including online dating, friendship, school reunions, pen-pals, escort services, introductions to potential foreign spouses, etc. Many of these sites host member profiles and facilitate social interaction among the members.

Sites in this category provide information on the purchase, manufacture, and use of illegal or recreational drugs. This includes displaying, selling, or detailing the use of drug paraphernalia, as well as tips on legal highs, such as glue sniffing, the misuse of prescription drugs, or the abuse of other legal substances.

This category includes Web pages devoted to academic subject matter such as math, history, science, literature, and general reference sites like online dictionaries and atlases. Also included are home pages of colleges, universities, and K-12 schools. This category may also be used as an exception to allow access to sites that may belong to another category, such as Sexual Materials, Nudity, or Violence, but relate to an educational topic such as classic literature, history, art, or sex education.

The entertainment category includes URLs devoted to movies, television, music, hobbies, horoscopes, Online greeting cards, or amusement parks.

This category is used in conjunction with Gruesome Content, Hate Speech, Politics/Opinion, Pornography, Violence, or Game/Cartoon Violence to identify URLs that are at the outer limits of these categories, being gory, perverse, or horrific in nature. An example is child pornography, which would have both the Pornography and Extreme categorization.

Sites in this category include information about business-related or personal banking, money management, such as 401 Ks, credit unions, mutual funds, as well as online financial publications.

This category includes family-safe sites that are designed specifically for children (approximately ages ten and under). This category may also be used as an exception to allow access to sites that have a primary educational or recreational focus for children but belong to other categories such as Games, Entertainment/Recreation/hobbies, Art/Culture/Heritage, etc.

This category includes URLs that include forums that permit messages to be posted and read immediately. This excludes message forums with a business or technical support focus (see Technical/Business Forums (tf)).

This category includes sites that allow users to wager or place bets online or provide gambling software that allows online betting i.e. casino games, betting pools, sports betting etc.