The tool allows parents to utilize the popular SafeSurf Rating Standard within their Netscape browser to set content levels according to their own individual standards. Parents may configure NetWatch to accept content levels in different SafeSurf categories including Profanity, Nudity, Violence, Intolerance and Gambling.
Parents also have the ability to block unrated sites.
On behalf of parents everywhere, who have envisioned the day when the SafeSurf Rating System would be available as a standard browser feature, we applaud Netscape for making this a reality. SafeSurf is an international no-fee parents' organization formed to protect children on the Internet and the rights of parents through technology and education. After pioneering the Internet's first rating system, SafeSurf became a founding member and served at the heart of the technical development of the PICS specification, and has been instrumental in fighting government censorship on the Internet. Netscape Communications Corporation is a leading provider of open software and services for linking people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet. The company offers a full line of clients, servers, development tools, commercial applications and professional services to create a complete platform for next-generation, online applications.