users can instead indirectly access the page via a proxy server offering translation
features. 
As noted above, filtering companies often block loophole sites, such as caches,
anonymizers, and translation sites.  The practice of blocking loophole sites necessarily
results in a significant amount of overblocking, because the vast majority of the pages
that are cached, for example, do not contain content that would match a filtering
company's category definitions.  Filters that do not block these loophole sites, however,
may enable users to access any URL on the Web via the loophole site, thus resulting in
substantial underblocking. 
c.  The Process for  Re Reviewing  Web Pages After Their Initial Categorization
Most filtering software companies do not engage in subsequent reviews of
categorized sites or pages on a scheduled basis.  Priority is placed on reviewing and
categorizing new sites and pages, rather than on re reviewing already categorized sites
and pages.  Typically, a filtering software vendor's previous categorization of a Web site
is not re reviewed for accuracy when new pages are added to the Web site.  To the extent
the Web site was previously categorized as a whole, the new pages added to the site
usually share the categorization assigned by the blocking product vendor.  This
necessarily results in both over  and underblocking, because, as noted above, the content
of Web pages and Web sites changes relatively rapidly. 
In addition to the content on Web sites or pages changing rapidly, Web sites
themselves may disappear and be replaced by sites with entirely different content.  If an
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