A Balanced Approach to Filtering fundamentally means::

• designing a system that does not over-filter.

• designing a system does not under-filter.

You have to use the right software design to achieve that balance.  

You can NOT ---

- Depend on a list of IP addresses as the solution.  You end up blocking Tripod, Zoom, GeoCities and every other site with a mixture of good and bad.  In fact many the majority of web hosts have some material that is bad.  

- Depend on URL lists as the only solution.  The critics of filtering are correct.  No list that was loaded this morning can be up to date

- Depend upon a list of bad words out of context as the only solution.  Chick breast, Super bowl XXXIII and Census summary data 

- Depend on self labeling systems alone.  Although useful, labels are voluntary and the judgment used to prepare a site label is provided by the people who created the site.  Think about that for a minute.

- Depend on Artificial Intelligence solutions alone.  Such systems sound good because you don't have to maintain a list.  But systems which depend on AI as the only solution add an unacceptable latency and mystery and imprecision to the filtering process.

The product was designed to look at both the query and response to provide a balanced filter process.  

The responsible concern over the balanced approach has resulted in a superior product.

Filter the QUERY

Filter the RESPONSE

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