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Terms and Definitions

Advocating for

defined as any of the following:

• An action that financially benefits an entity in any way

  • E.g., “Donate to the Nazi party!”

• An action that provides material support to an entity or event

  • E.g., “Send care packages to this address to show our support for Ghislaine Maxwell”

• A call to action

  • E.g., “Contact the Wagner Group at this number to help the war effort! - (XXX) XXX-XXXX”

• Recruiting or or on behalf of

  • E.g., “If you want to fight for the special operation, DM me”

• Providing information or resources, including official communications, either directly, through a third party or on behalf of

  • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses or is part of a news story

Praise

defined as any of the following:

• Language that speaks positively

  • E.g., “Those Al-Qaeda terrorists are very honorable!”

• Providing a sense of achievement

  • E.g., “Osama bin Laden is a martyr.”

• Justifying or legitimizing hateful, violent, or criminal conduct

  • E.g., “Hitler did nothing wrong.”

• Aligning oneself ideologically with an entity or event

  • E.g., “I stand with Elmer Rhodes.”

Threaten

defined as any of the following:

• Language that states an intention to take hostile action against someone, for any reason

  • E.g. “I’m going to beat you up.”

• Where hostile action includes, but is not limited to:

  • sexual assault

  • physical violence - including killing, injuring, maiming or seriously hurting another person

  • kidnapping or human trafficking

  • coded statements where a method of hostile action is not clearly stated, but the threat is implied

Representation

defined as any of the following:

• Stating that you are a member of, or are

  • E.g., “I am an enforcer for El Chapo.”

• Creating a Community, News Set, Profile, or other UNPRESS entity that claims to be owned by a prohibited entity or individual, is run on their behalf, or represents a prohibited event

  • E.g., A community named “American Nazi Party.”

  • E.g., A profile dedicated to luring people into a dangerous organization

Brigading

When an orchestrated group of people flood target a story, a specific person or a persons comment in order to influence or damage its reputation. This can be through leaving disparaging comments, or attempting to influence the ratings and scoring of stories, perspectives, comments or user profiles.

Bullying

The act of intimidating, abusing, harassing, or coercing persons from a position of relative power, strength or privilege. Bullying is often directed at those who may be unable, unwilling or unlikely to defend themselves.

Doxing or Outing

Exposes private personal information about a person or group of persons without their consent. Private personal information includes, but is not limited to:

• Home address(es)

• Workplace details

• Personal phone numbers

• Social security numbers

• Financial information such as bank accounts or credit cards

• Non-public information regarding sexuality, gender, or gender identity

• Private health care history or information

• Private correspondence

• Criminal history

• Personal photos

• Embarrassing private personal details

Swatting

Swatting is a criminal harassment tactic of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person's address. This is triggered by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as, but not limited to, a:

• a bomb threat

• murder

• hostage situation

• false report of a mental health emergency, such as reporting that a person is allegedly suicidal or homicidal and may or may not be armed

Human Trafficking

Our definition of Human Trafficking is based on the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) definition, with small modifications. See below.

Human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. It is essentially the deprivation of liberty for profit by forcing victims to engage in activities against their will. This is a global problem that can affect any community and victims can be any age, race, gender, or nationality. Traffickers have many strategies to lure victims into trafficking situations. These might include: violence, manipulation, false promises of well-paying jobs, romantic relationships, and extortion.

Language barriers, fear of their traffickers, and/or fear of law enforcement frequently keep victims from seeking help, making human trafficking a hidden crime. Traffickers look for people who are easy targets for a variety of reasons, including: Psychological or emotional vulnerability, Economic hardship, Lack of a social safety net, Natural disasters, Political instability, War.

Dangerous Organizations and Individuals

Dangerous Organizations and Individuals are not allowed to have a presence on UNPRESS, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these communities are actively engaged in spreading hate and violence. Praise, Advocacy for, and Substantive support of these entities is not allowed.

Terrorist organizations, Terrorists and Violent Non-State Actors

defined as a non-state actors actor that:

• engages in, advocates for, represents, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,

• causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property or civil infrastructure linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians

• With the intent to coerce, intimidate coerces, intimidates and/or influence influences a civilian population, government, or international organizationIn order , or has the stated intention to do so, to achieve a political, religious, financial, or ideological aim.

Hate Organizations

defined as an association of three or more people that:

• is organized under a name, sign, or symbol; and

• has an ideology, statements, or physical actions that attack individuals based on characteristics, including race, religious affiliation, national origin, disability, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, or serious disease.are designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs)

• or, that causes or attempts to

  • cause death to persons taking direct part in hostilities in an armed conflict, and/or

  • deprive communities of access to vital infrastructure and natural resources, and/or bring significant damage to property, linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians

Criminal Organizations

defined as an association of three or more people that:

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• has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping.

Mass Shootings, Multiple-Victim Violence and Multiple Murders

• We consider an event to be multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence if it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a perpetrator or an attempted perpetrator of multiple-victim violence.

• We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a multiple murderer.

Hateful Ideologies

• While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that there , for any reason.

• are designated by the United States government as specially designated narcotics trafficking kingpins (SDNTKs)

Hate Organizations

defined as an association of three or more people that:

• has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics such as race, religious affiliation, national origin, disability, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation or serious disease.

• An organization does not need to have engaged in criminal conduct or have followed their speech with actual unlawful action to be labeled a hate organization.

Hateful Ideologies

There are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence

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directed towards others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. Note that currently our definition of this category is fairly narrow. We are careful to balance the needs with free speech with the protection of our users.

These ideologies include:

• Nazism

• White Supremacy

• White Nationalism

White Separatism

or any form or Racial Supremacy

• Ideologies that drive terrorist groups, such as the ideology of the Islamic State, which we consider different and distinct from a particular established world religion.

We remove explicit Praise, Advocation, Substantive Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and may remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.

Violent Non-State Actors

Organizations and individuals designated as Violent Non-state Actors are not allowed to have a presence on Unpress, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these communities are actively engaged in violence, substantive support of these entities is similarly not allowed. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by these entities.

Violent Non-State Actors are defined as any non-state actor that:

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engages in purposive and planned acts of violence primarily against a government military or other armed communities; and

that causes or attempts to

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cause death to persons taking direct part in hostilities in an armed conflict, and/or

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Mass Shootings, Multiple-Victim Violence and Multiple Murders

An event falls within this designation if any of the following are true

• there are three or more casualties, defined as death or severe injury, within the same general area over a short period by a single individual

• there are multiple casualties over a period of hours or days in different locations by a single impulsive assailant

• three or more casualties involving stranger-to-stranger violence in different locations with a significant time lapse between them, committed by the same assailant

Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a perpetrator or an attempted perpetrator of multiple-victim violence. We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a multiple murderer.

Militarized Social Movements (MSMs)

include:

• Militia Communities, defined as non-state actors that use weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces and:

  • Coordinate in preparation for violence or civil war; orDistribute information about the tactical use of weapons for combat; or

  • Coordinate militarized tactical coordination efforts in a present or future armed civil conflict or civil war.

• Communities supporting violent acts amid protests, defined as non-State actors that repeatedly :

  Coordinate

  coordinate, promote, admit to or engage in:

  • Acts of street violence against civilians or law enforcement; or

  • Arson, Looting, or other destruction of property; or

  • Threaten to violently disrupt an election process; or

  • Promote bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest.

Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks (VICNs)

defined as a Non-State Actor that:

• Organizes under a name, sign, mission statement, or symbol; and

• Promote theories that attribute violent or dehumanizing behavior to people or organizations that have been debunked by credible sources; and

• Has inspired multiple incidents of real-world violence by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms promoted by these debunked theories.

Hate-Banned Entities

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