A shock site is a website intended to be offensive to most viewers, usually containing frightening and/or incredibly taste (aesthetics) and crude content. In most cases, it displays a particular picture most prominently; some shock sites also show animations or galleries of images, particularly shock images . Shock sites are often of varying severity; for descriptions of specific shock sites, see list of shock sites.

or Slashdot itself in an attempt to circumvent the measure.

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