Internet Block List

1. Adult/Sexually Explicit

• Sexually oriented, partial or full nudity
• Depictions or images of sexual acts, including animals or inanimate objects used in a sexual manner
• Erotic stories and textual descriptions of sexual acts
•  Sexually exploitative or sexually violent text or graphics
• Bondage, fetishes or genital piercing
• Adult products including sex toys, CD-ROMs and videos
• Adult services including videoconferencing, escort services, and strip clubs
• Explicit cartoons and animation

^{Note:     Not included in Adult/Sexually Explicit are sites regarding sexual health, breast cancer, or sexually transmitted diseases (except in graphic examples).}

2. Criminal Skills

• Advocating, instructing or giving advice on performing illegal acts such as service theft, evading law enforcement
• Lock-picking, fraud
• Plagiarism, cheating and burglary techniques

3. Drugs, Tobacco and Alcohol

• Recipes, instructions or kits for manufacturing or growing illicit substances including alcohol for purposes other than industrial usage
• Glamorizing, encouraging or instructing in the use of or masking the use of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs or other substances that are illegal to minors
• Alcohol and tobacco manufacturers’ commercial Web sites
• Information on “illegal highs”—glue sniffing, misuse of prescription drugs or abuse of other legal substances
• Distributing alcohol, illegal drugs, or tobacco free or for a charge
• Displaying, selling or detailing use of drug paraphernalia

^{Note:     Not included in Drugs, Tobacco and Alcohol are sites that discuss medicinal drug use, industrial hemp use, public debate on the issue of legalizing certain drugs, or sites supported by a public or private agency that provides educational information on drug use.}

4. Gambling

• Online gambling or lottery Web sites that invite the use of real money
• Information or advice for placing wagers, participating in lotteries or gambling real money
• Running numbers, virtual casinos and offshore gambling ventures
• Virtual sports leagues and sports picks and betting pools

^{Note:     Not blocked are news, historical, or press incidents that may include the above criteria (except in graphic examples).}

5. Hacking

• Promotion, instruction, or advice on the questionable or illegal use of equipment and/or software for the purpose of hacking passwords, creating viruses, gaining access to other computers and/or computerized communication systems
• Sites that provide workarounds for our filtering software
• Cracked software

6. Hate Speech

• Advocating or inciting degradation or attack of specified populations or institutes based on associations such as religion, race, nationality, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation
• Promoting a political or social agenda that is supremacist in nature and exclusionary of others based on their religion, race, nationality, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation
• Holocaust revisionist/denial sites
• Coercion or recruitment for membership in a gang or cult
• Militancy, extremism

7. Remote Proxies

• Remote proxies or anonymous surfing

8. Violence

• Portraying, describing or advocating physical assault against humans, animals or institutions
• Depictions of torture, mutilation, gore or horrific death
• Advocating suicide or self-mutilation
• Instructions, recipes or kits for making bombs or other harmful or destructive devices
• Excessive use of profanity or obscene gesticulation

9. Weapons

• Online purchasing or ordering information, including lists of prices and dealer locations
• Any page or site predominantly containing or providing links to content related to the sale of guns, weapons, ammunition or poisonous substances
• Displaying or detailing the use of guns, weapons, ammunition or poisonous substances
• Weapons are defined as something used to injure, defeat or destroy (such as a club, knife, or gun)