Hello Specimen, Thanks for raising this important topic. I can assure you that we aren't attempting to censor the web. You have run into an interesting situation that is somewhat specific to our web categorization test site, and not entirely reflective of the real world. To be clear, we apply two attributes to web sites: category, and risk. The category is intended to classify all the web sites of the world into 50+ groupings. In our business products we allow IT administrators to manage each category individually. The Home Edition product does not use this information at all. The second attribute, risk, is what all of our products utilize for security purposes. We classify web sites into different risk levels, and any site marked as "high risk" (usually because of known security issues present or past) are blocked. This is true for our business products as well as the Home Edition. In the case of our test site, several categories are tagged "high risk" as well as having a specific category applied. In the real world, its possible to have a web site categorized as Violence that is not considered "high risk". Don't ask me for examples, I have absolutely no idea where to even begin looking. Likewise, a web site may be categorized as News (generally safe) but also be "high risk". We would block that site for the same reason. Our team of researchers in SophosLabs have the flexibility to apply these two parameters independently. These two parameters are independent, although in some cases (Spyware) there is high correlation with "high risk". Hope that answers your question.
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