Overview

In an effort to prevent and disrupt offline harm and copycat behavior, we prohibit people from facilitating, organizing, promoting or admitting to certain criminal or harmful activities targeted at people, businesses, property or animals. We allow people to debate and advocate for the legality of criminal and harmful activities, as well as draw attention to harmful or criminal activity that they may witness or experience as long as they Discussion and exploration of the legality of criminal and harmful activities is allowed for the purpose of informing people and drawing attention to them and the effects they might have. This is permitted as long as the discussions do not advocate for or coordinate harm. Facilitating, organizing or promoting certain criminal or harmful activities targeted at people, businesses, property or animals is prohibited.

What happens if you violate these standards?

Content will may be labelled or removed, platform functionality may be restricted and for egregious violations, accounts may be banned. For more information see our page: Enforcement Approach

What is in violation of these standards?

Do not post content that falls into the following categories:

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Harm to people

• Doxing or Outing:

• Content that exposes the identity or locations affiliated with anyone who is alleged to:

• Be a member of an outing-risk group; and/or

• Share familial and/or romantic relationships with a member(s) of an outing-risk group; and/or

• Have performed professional activities in support of an outing-risk group (except for political figures)

• Content that exposes

• Sexual exploitation

• Swatting, specifically statements of intent, calls to action, supporting, advocating for

• Exposing the undercover status of law enforcement, military, or security personnel ifby posting information that contains:The content contains the agent’s

  • full

  name

  • names or other explicit identification and explicitly mentions their undercover status

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  • imagery that identifies the faces of the law enforcement personnel and explicitly mentions their undercover status

  .Swatting, specifically statements of intent, calls to action, representing, supporting, advocating for, depicting, admitting to or speaking positively about it.

• Depicting, promoting, advocating for or encouraging participation in a high-risk viral challenge.

Harm

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to animals

Statements of intent, calls to action, representing, supporting or advocating for, or depicting, admitting to or promoting:

• Acts of physical harm against animals committed by you or your associates except in cases of hunting, fishing, religious sacrifice, food preparation or processing, pest or vermin, self-defense or redemption.

• Staged Organized animal vs. animal fights, including acts committed by a third party.

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• Unauthorized release of animals or livestock from commercial facilities such as research laboratories, rehabilitation facilities or farms

Harm to property

Statements of intent, calls to action, representing, supporting or advocating for harm against property that depicts, admits to, or promotes the following acts committed by you or your associates:

• Vandalism.

• Hacking when the intent is or cracking intended to hijack a an internet domain, corrupt destroy or disrupt cyber technology systems, seek ransoms, or gain unauthorized access to data systems.computer systems and data that you do not own

• Theft when committed by you or your associates, as well as positive statements about theft when committed by a third party.

Voter and/or census fraud

• Offers to buy or sell votes with cash or gifts

• Statements that advocate, provide instructions, or show explicit intent to illegally participate in a voting or census process

For the following content, we include a label so that people are aware the content may be sensitive:

• Imagery depicting a high-risk viral challenge if shared with a caption that condemns or raises awareness of the associated risks.

What is not in violation of these standards?

Content that

• is shared as part of news coverage

• is clearly provided for non-harmful purposes

• is meant to report on or cover events or actions of importance to the public good

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