How does it work?

Websites are sorted into 33 categories of content

Categories include things like Hate Speech, Pornography, Alcohol-Tobacco, Reproductive Health, On-Line Games, Major World Religions, and Paranormal to name a few.
All categorization is performed by our team of human reviewers. "Machine Intelligence" is easily fooled and cannot be trusted to accurately evaluate Internet content.

Each member of the household can be given their own characteristic set, including whether or not to all access to sites that have not yet been reviewed.
Internet access can also be restricted by time of day and/or day of week.
Certain types of applications like Instant Messaging (IM) or Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing can be restricted too. (Did you know that the most popular use of P2P software,like KaZaa or Morpheus, is for downloading pornography?)

It intercepts requests for information from the Internet and compares it to the WebBalanced Technologies database.
If it is content that you, the parent, have allowed for that user, access is seamless. But, if it does not match the allowed characteristics, a block page is displayed indicating why it was not allowed.
The account administrator may use a password to override a block screen.
Account administrators also have the ability to create "always permit" or "always restrict" sites, and can automatically submit a website URL for prompt evaluation by the human review team.