Terms and Definitions

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.”

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:

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• Stating that you are a member of, or are

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

• Creating a Community, ChapterNews Set, Profile, or other Unpress 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

Brigading

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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 UnpressUNPRESS, 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.

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• 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 of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property or civil infrastructure linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians

• coerces, intimidates and/or influences a civilian population, government, or international organization, or has the stated intention to do so, to achieve a political, religious, financial, or ideological aim.

• 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

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

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There are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of 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 or any form or Racial Supremacy, Nationalism or Separatism

• 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.

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• 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

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