to stomach sites, including offensive, worthless or useless sites, grotesque or lurid

depictions of bodily harm.   The  Hacking  category blocks  sites providing information

on or promoting illegal or questionable access to or use of communications equipment

and/or software.  

SmartFilter offers the following categories:  Anonymizers/Translators; Art &

Culture; Chat; Criminal Skills; Cults/Occult; Dating; Drugs; Entertainment;

Extreme/Obscene/Violence; Gambling; Games; General News; Hate Speech; Humor;

Investing; Job Search; Lifestyle; Mature; MP3 Sites; Nudity; On line Sales; Personal

Pages; Politics, Opinion & Religion; Portal Sites; Self Help/Health; Sex; Sports; Travel;

Usenet News; and Webmail. 

Most importantly, no category definition used by filtering software companies is

identical to CIPA's definitions of visual depictions that are obscene, child pornography,

or harmful to minors.  And category definitions and categorization decisions are made

without reference to local community standards.  Moreover, there is no judicial

involvement in the creation of filtering software companies' category definitions and no

judicial determination is made before these companies categorize a Web page or site.  

Each filtering software company associates each URL in its control list with a

 tag  or other identifier that indicates the company's evaluation of whether the content or

features of the Web site or page accessed via that URL meets one or more of its category

definitions.  If a user attempts to access a Web site or page that is blocked by the filter,

the user is immediately presented with a screen that indicates that a block has occurred as

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