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Saturday, 03 November 2007

Below are the descriptions of the websites that Global Chalkboard blocks:

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)

 

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