Filtering Criteria
The Bsecure
Filter offers a clean, objectionable free environment for your home. We filter Internet
sites on our servers, freeing you from the hassle of installing and updating screening
software on your computer. The filters are our own, and we can provide a 48 hour
response if a customer finds a site we may have missed. We update our filters on
a daily basis.
What we filter:
- Alcohol
Sites that sell or have information on the recreational use of alcohol. This category
includes sites that sell alcohol, sites of alcohol manufacturers, sites that show
how to make mixed drinks, and similar sites.
- Alternative Lifestyles
Information promoting adultery, infidelity, same gender and/or trans-gendered relationships.
- Anarchy
Sites containing information regarding militias, weapons, antigovernment groups,
terrorism, and similar sites.
- Chat
Sites that promote online chatting where there is no moderator to monitor the conversation
(a moderator is a person who monitors the room the entire time the chat room is
open).
- Criminal Skills
Sites that promote illegal activities, instructions, or information that can be
used to commit illegal activities. Such activities include making bombs, software
hacking, lock picking, selling pirated material and software, and counterfeiting.
- Cults/Goth
Sites that encourage Gothic and/or cult lifestyles like female enslavement, body
mutilation and similar sites.
- Drug Use
Sites that encourage the use of recreational drugs. This category includes sites
which have information about topics such as growing, buying, or selling illegal
drugs.
- Gambling
Sites where monetary bets are placed such as a gambling site which requires an online
payment in order to participate.
- R-rated Games
Sites which offer violent or role playing games and related information such as
cheats, codes, demos, role-playing games and emulators.
- Hate/Discrimination
Sites which target a group of people based on race, gender, religion, culture in
a hateful or derogatory manner.
- Offensive Humor
Sites that post jokes, humorous stories, or other forms of humor which can be offensive
or erotic.
- Newsgroups
Sites which host web or browser-based newsgroups.
- Obscene/Tasteless
Sites which involve such things as mutilation, murder, bodily functions, horror,
death, candid scenes, executions, violence, and similar sites.
- Personals/Dating
Sites which are related to personal advertisements, dating sites, dating services,
relationships, introductions, and similar sites.
- Pornography
Sites which contain material which is intended to be sexually arousing or erotic.
This includes photos, animation, cartoons, and stories. Web sites which have restrictions
such as "Adults Only" or "You must be 18 to view this site".
- R-rated
Sites which contain lingerie, swimsuits, and revealing pictures. Sites that are
adult in nature without being explicitly pornographic.
- Web-based Proxies and Anonymizers
Web sites which offer free anonymous proxy services often used for hacking and bypassing
filters.
- Yahoo Clubs, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Profiles
These are blocked because of the large amounts of pornographic web pages which are
located in the Clubs, Groups, and Profiles sections.
Even in the best of scenarios, Bsecure Technologies’ filtering technology may from
time to time block a very small percentage of good information. It is also true
that our technology could be employed with harmful intent. We honor those who have
sacrificed for the cause of freedom by our pledge not to sell our services to organizations
or governments who are intent on using technology to censor freedom of search on
the Internet, to control access to information libraries or to censor or block free
speech in religious or political communication.
Contact Bsecure Technologies for more information