It is important to realise that a family mode in a product, is not a substitute for adaquate parental supervision. If a child wants to bypass the family mode in Callisto, it is easily done, they don't use Callisto, they use another newsreader!

However within the confines of Callisto, the family mode will filter about 99% of adult content.

Callisto filters at three levels.

Newsgroups<

newgroups are filtered according to our censoring dictionary. This scores words with the following values:

If a newsgroup scores 4 or more it is barred. We include "alt" as a word to contribute towards the more unregulated nature of the alt hierarchy.

Subjects

Subject titles are treated in the same manner a newsgroups.

Subject Bodies

Subject bodies are scored according to the censorship dictionary, but due the length of article bodies it is not simply a matter of "4 strikes and out" , but an algorithm taking into account the length of text.

Customisation

The user can edit/add/remove and set the levels of all words in the censorship dictionary.

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