Harassment may take many forms, including online bullying, intimidation, threats (see here and here), doxing, swatting, and brigading. These manifest via comments, direct messages, stories, story descriptions, sources/citations, and ratings of stories and comments.

We do not tolerate any form of harassment, however, we do make a distinction between prohibit harassment but distinguish between public figures, those in the public eye, public figures and private citizens in order to facilitate to allow for critical commentary on newsworthy stories that may include critical commentary.

Those in the public eye may be people who are featured in the news while public figures are those with a large public audience and/or following. We will remove content that attacks public persons, if we feel the Content may be subject to removal if attacks are severe, personal, or go beyond relatively exceed objective criticism. This is particularly true if a potential victim of harassment is directly tagged in a story or comment. We may permit content that is shared in order to condemn or draw attention to harassment, provided that , especially if directly tagged. Content shared to condemn or highlight harassment may be permitted, provided it does not further victimize.

For private citizens, we will remove any content that may be interpreted as degrading or shaming content will be removed. We have maintain a zero-tolerance policy for any content that we feel may be harassment when it is targeted at minors. This content often requires individuals to report it to us. We encourage self-reporting for anyone that feels that they may be a victim of harassmentharassment targeting minors. Reporting of such content is often required, and self-reporting is encouraged for potential harassment victims.

Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.

What happens if you violate these standards?

Content may be labelled labeled or removed, platform functionality may be restricted and for egregious violations, accounts may be banned. We may also relay egregious violations to the appropriate authorities.

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Any behavior that is prohibited by the UNPRESS Community Standards, including any behavior that may target or victimize persons. Behaviors include , but are not limited to, sending messages, posting stories, posting imagery (original, edited, or fabricated), comments or written descriptions, or creating community groups.

Violating behaviors Violations include, but are not limited to:

• Repeatedly contacting someone in a manner Unsolicited, repetitive contact that may be :

• Unwanted

• Sexually harassing

Directed at large numbers of people with no prior solicitation

unwanted or sexually harassing

• Abuse of the rating Rating system to harassfor harassment, particularly including coordinated efforts with one or more other individualsAny speech which may incite others

• Incitement to harm or inflict self-harm

• Attacking a person on the basis of a protected class, which includesAttacks based on protected classes or other personal attributes such as:

  • Race, ethnicity or , skin colorReligion , religion or creedNational , national origin or ancestrySex, sex - including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity

  • Age

  • Physical , age, physical or mental disability

  • Veteran status

  • Genetic information

  • Citizenship

  Attacking a person on the basis of:

  • Breastfeeding choices

  • Disease

  • Abortion views or choices

  • Physical appearance

  • Previous , veteran status, genetic information, or citizenship

  • Neurodivergent conditions, disease, health conditions, breastfeeding choices, abortion views or choices, physical appearance, previous victimization including domestic or sexual abuse

• Content or dialog that constitutes or incites others to dialogue promoting bullying, intimidation, threats (see here and here), doxing, swatting, or brigading.

• Content or dialog that praises, advocates Unauthorized praise, advocacy, or calls for harm or sexualizes another person

• Sexualization of others (without their knowledge or permission.)

• Content or dialog that praises, celebrates or mocks Glorification, celebration, or mockery of harm done to another person

• Cursing terms directed at others in a derogatory manner

• Claims others

• Derogatory use of curse words toward others

• Defamatory or harassing claims of illegal activity , or sexual or romantic involvement with the intent to harass or defame

• Comparisons of persons individuals to other living creatures or inanimate objects that are culturally perceived as being mentally or physically inferior.

What is not in violation of these standards?

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• Is newsworthy but includes critical commentary of on public figures or people in the public eye

• Is shared in order to condemn or draw attention to harassment