Surfwatch Road Test
May, 1996
When Congress began making noise about censoring "filth and indecency" on the Internet, Silicon Valley responded with $50 programs that prevent underage Net surfers from accessing adult material. The most popular of these, Surfwatch, works by restricting access to a list of 2100 sexually oriented online sites (including Playboy's) and by blocking thousands of sites that contain terms such as sex, porn, intercourse, penis, vagina, smut, blowjob, erotic, fuck or XXX in their addresses. W...
