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Filtering Criteria
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Integrity
Online offers advanced filtering solutions that afford
educators, parents and librarians reliable protection
against objectionable Internet material. Identifying
and examining the thousands of new sites that come online
every day is a top priority at Integrity Online and
an area in which Integrity Online distinguishes itself
from its competitors.
We
use a variety of techniques to manage our industry-leading
site database. To find sites to review, Integrity Online
uses a sophisticated research process to continuously
comb the Internet. This process identifies thousands
of suspect sites every day, helping Integrity Online
find new sites to block and discover changes to existing
ones. After we perform this daily search, our Review
Team carefully analyzes and catalogs each site in accordance
with the Integrity Online Filtering Philosophy.
Another
mechanism we use is feedback from our customers. Our
filtering services feature a Request Page Review that
allows customers to request that a site be blocked or
unblocked. Each request is reviewed and individually
replied to. This feedback helps Integrity Online refine
its list, involves our customers in the filtering process
and helps organizations customize their own block list.
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Block
Categories
- Adults
Only : Material labeled by its author or publisher
as being strictly for adults. (Examples: "Adults only",
"You must be 18 to visit this site", "Registration
is allowed only for people 18 or older", "You must
be of legal drinking age to visit this site").
- Hate
/ Discrimination: Advocating discrimination against
others based on race, religion, gender, nationality,
or sexual orientation.
- Illegal:
Advocating, promoting, or giving advice on carrying
out acts widely considered illegal. This includes
lock-picking, bomb-making, fraud, breaching computer
security ("hacking"), phone service theft ("phreaking"),
pirated software archives, or evading law enforcement.
- Porn
Site Material: Material intended to be sexually
arousing or erotic. (See also Sex and Nudity)
- Sex:
Images or descriptions of sexual activity. Any sexual
merchandise. Sexual fetishism. (See also Pornography
and Nudity)
- Violence:
Graphic images or written descriptions of wanton violence
or grave injury (mutilation, maiming, dismemberment,
etc.) Includes graphically violent games.
- Chat:
Chat sites, services that allow short messages to
be sent to others immediately in real time. Downloadable
chat software. (See also Moderated)
- Drugs:
Advocating or promoting recreational use of any controlled
substance. (Also see Illegal)
- Tasteless/Gross:
Bodily functions. Tasteless humor. Graphic medical
photos. Some extreme forms of body modification (cutting,
branding, genital piercing).
- Profanity:
Crude, vulgar, or obscene language or gestures.
- Lingerie:
Models in lingerie.
- Nudity
: Bare or visible genitalia, pubic hair, buttocks,
female breasts, etc. (See also Swimsuits, Lingerie,
Sex, Pornography)
- School
Cheating Info Pages: Any site that promotes plagiarism
or similar cheating among students (such as by offering
term papers, exam keys, etc.)
- Suicide
/ Murder: Information on committing murder or
suicide.
- Gambling:
Services, or information relevant primarily to gambling.
- Swimsuits:
Models in swimwear, especially fashion swimwear photos.
Exception
Categories
- Education
Material: Material under another category (such
as Sex, Nudity, Violence) that has educational value
(such as classic literature, sex education, etc.)
- For
Kids Sites: Sites that are designed specifically
for kids.
- History:
Material that falls under another category (such as
Sex or Violence) that is non-fictional and historically
significant.
- Medical
Material: Material under another category (such
as Nudity or Tasteless/Gross) that relates to the
study or practice of medicine.
- Moderated:
A "Message/Bulletin Board" or "Chat" site that prevents
offensive material from being posted.
- Text/Spoken
Only Material: Material under another category
that that is strictly verbal (i.e. text or spoken
word). This can be used, for example, to distinguish
written erotica from graphical "Porn" sites.
Special
Categories
- Block
search engine results based on key words.
- Block
urls based on key words.
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