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What Types of things Are Filtered? |
Our Proxy Server filters sites that fall in the following
categories:
- Violence/Profanity
Pictures exposing, text or audio describing extreme
cruelty, physical or emotional acts against any animal or person
which are primarily intended to hurt or inflict pain. Profanity:
is definded as obscene words or phrases either audio, text or
pictures.
- Full Nudity
Pictures exposing any or all portions of the human genitalia
- Partial Nudity
Pictures exposing the female breast or full exposure of either
male or female buttocks except when exposing genitalia. The
Partial Nudity category does not include swimsuits (including
thongs).
Note:
The Partial Nudity and Full Nudity categories do not include sites containing nudity or
partial nudity of a non-prurient nature. For example: web sites for publications such as
National Geographic or Smithsonian Magazine or sites hosted by museums such as the
Guggenheim, the Louvre, or the Museum of Modern Art.
- Sexual Acts
Pictures, descriptive text or audio of anyone or anything involved in explicit sexual acts
and or lewd and lascivious behavior, including masturbation, copulation, pedophilia,
intimacy involving nude or partially nude people in heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian or
homosexual encounters. Also includes phone sex ads, dating services, adult personal ads,
CD-ROM's and videos.
- Gross Depictions
Pictures, descriptive text or audio of anyone or anything which
are crudely vulgar or grossly deficient in civility or which show
scatological impropriety. Includes such depictions as maiming,
bloody figures, autopsy photos or indecent depiction of bodily
functions.
- Satanic/Cult
Satanic material is defined as: Pictures or text advocating
devil worship, an affinity for evil, or wickedness. A cult is defined as: A closed
society, often headed by a single individual, where loyalty is demanded, leaving may be
punishable, and in some instances, harm to self or others is advocated. Common elements
may include: encouragement to join, recruiting promises, and
influences that tend to compromise the personal exercise of free
will and critical thinking.
- Drug Culture
Pictures or text advocating the illegal use of drugs for entertainment. Includes
substances used for other than their primary purpose to alter the individual's state of
mind, such as
glue sniffing. This category does not include material
about the use of illegal drugs when they are legally prescribed
for medicinal purposes (e.g., drugs used to treat glaucoma or
cancer).
- Militant/Extremist
Pictures or text advocating extremely aggressive and combative
behaviors, or advocacy of unlawful political measures. Topics
include groups that advocate violence as a means to achieve their
goals. Includes "how to" information on weapons making, ammunition making or the
making or use of pyrotechnics materials.
Also includes the use of weapons for unlawful reasons.
- Gambling/Questionable/Illegal
Pictures or text advocating materials or activities of a dubious
nature which may be illegal in any or all jurisdictions, such as
illegal business schemes, chain letters, copyright infringement,
computer hacking, phreaking (using someone's phone lines without
permission) and software piracy. Also includes text advocating
gambling relating to lotteries, casinos, betting, numbers games,
on-line sports or financial betting, including non-monetary dares
and "1-900"; type numbers.

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