Restricted Goods and Services

Community Guidelines

Policy Rationale

To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.

Restricted Goods and Services consist of the following categories:

  • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
  • Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Tobacco and Related Products
  • Alcohol
  • Online Gambling and Games
  • Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
  • Historic Artifacts
  • Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Body Parts and Fluids

Each category is detailed below.

Drugs and Pharmaceuticals

We do not allow:

High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).

Content that:

  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of high risk drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.

Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purpose or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)

Content that:

  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
  • Attempts to sell or promote non-medical drugs paraphernalia.
  • Contains merchandise depicting non-medical drugs.

Prescription drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)

Content that:

  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over. This content must also include a disclaimer to consult a licensed health professional or obtain a valid prescription.
  • Attempts to donate or gift prescription drugs, except in the event of an economic, health, societal or natural disaster crisis.
  • Asks for prescription drugs, except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of prescription drugs in a medical context.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of prescription drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.

Entheogens

  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.

Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products

  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.

For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older (NSFW Channels only):


Entheogens

  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
    • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.

Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products

  • Content that coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Business related content posted by marijuana dispensaries where there are no attempts to buy, sell or trade marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content making disease claims relating to non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content depicting marijuana paraphernalia.

Prescription drugs

  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs in any context, including when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for over-the-counter medicine.
  • Content that includes admission or consumption of prescription drugs.

In the following scenarios, we may request additional information about an account to ascertain ownership and/or permissible activity:

  • Compromised accounts
  • Creating or using an account or other entity through automated means, such as scripting (unless the scripting activity occurs through authorized routes and does not otherwise violate our policies)

Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives

We do not allow:

Content outside of NSFW Channels that:

  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, gift, exchange, transfer, coordinate, speaks positively about, encourages the use of or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, asks for or admits ownership machine gun conversion devices.

Tobacco and Related Products

For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older (NSFW Channels only):

Content that:

    • Content depicting the consumption of tobacco, nicotine products.
    • Content that coordinates or promotes the use of tobacco, nicotine products.
    • Content depicting Tobacco Cessation Products
    • Content discussing or promoting the use of tobacco, tobacco paraphernalia, or tobacco brands
    • Media content depicting smoking or tobacco consumption in a non-fictional context
      • Except in the context of anti-smoking campaigns, counseling services for smoking addiction, smoking rehabilitation, or PSA context

    We do not allow:

    Content that:

    • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift except in a fictional and/or ingame context.

    Within a NSFW Channel it is allowed to talk and consume alcohol.

    Alcohol

    Online Gambling and Games

    For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older (NSFW Channels only):

    Online Gambling and Games

    • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g., bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize. This includes but is not limited to:
      • Games of skill, lotteries/raffles, betting, sports betting, casino games, games of chance, or sweepstakes/prize draws.
      • Gambling Games offering a limited trial period and requiring payment thereafter.

    Free-to-play games with Gambling context

    • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote free-to-play games that simulate gambling games, where anything of monetary value is not required to play the game, but there may be an opportunity to win money or money’s worth.

    This is allowed outside of NSFW Channels:

    Social Casino Games

    • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote social casino games that simulate gambling games such as slot machines, where there is no opportunity to win money or money’s worth. This includes content that indicates the opportunity to win “coins” of no monetary value.

    PLEASE NOTE: Promotions of any kinds are to be approved by the NepFam Studios staff BEFORE being posted.

    Other categories

    Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)

    We remove content that:

    • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts or protected plants species.
    • Admits to or encourages the poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
    • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
    • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions) to use or make products from endangered species or their parts, or any endangered wildlife or plants.

    Non-endangered animals

    • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
      • Posted in the context of adopting, gifting, asking for, donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions
      • Offering a reward for lost pets.
      • Posted in the context of sale of livestock.
      • Posted in the context of offering animals’ related products for human consumption such as: eggs, fish, etc.

    Historic Artifacts

    We remove content that:

    attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.

    Hazardous Goods and Materials

    We remove content that:

    attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials.

    Human Body Parts and Bodily Fluids

    We remove content that:
    • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human body parts, even beyond the human-trafficking content prohibited under the Human Exploitation policy.
    • Asking for human fluids exchange.
    • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human fluids.
      • Except when posted in NSFW and in context for donation of human fluids such as semen or blood plasma.