WebBlocker Categories
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Category
Description of Content
Hacking
Promotion, instruction, or advice on the questionable or
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illegal use of equipment and/or software for purpose of
hacking passwords, creating viruses, or gaining access to
other computers and/or computerized communication
systems
Sites that provide instruction or work-arounds for filtering
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software
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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Sites that provide or promote information gathering or
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tracking that is unknown to, or without the explicit consent
of, an end user or organization
Sites that distribute malicious executables or viruses
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Third-party monitoring and other unsolicited commercial
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software
Hate Speech
Advocating or inciting degradation of or attacks on
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specified populations or institutions based on associations
such as religion, race, nationality, gender, age, disability, or
sexual orientation
Promoting a political or social agenda that is supremacist
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in nature or exclusionary of others based on their race,
religion, nationality, gender, age, disability, or sexual
orientation
Holocaust revisionist/denial sites
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Coercion or recruitment for membership in a gang* or
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cult**
Militancy, extremist
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Flagrantly insensitive or offensive material, including lack
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of recognition or respect for opposing opinions or beliefs
Note: SurfControl does not include news, historical, or press
incidents that may include the above criteria in this category
(except in graphic examples).
*A gang is defined as: a group whose primary activities are
the commission of felonious criminal acts, that has a
common name or identifying sign or symbol, and whose
members individually or collectively engage in criminal
activity in the name of the group.
**A cult is defined as: a group whose followers have been
deceptively and manipulatively recruited and retained
through undue influence such that followers' personalities
and behavior are altered. Leadership is all-powerful,
ideology is totalistic, the will of the individual is subordinate
to the group, and the group is outside society.
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