Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime

Policy Rationale

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 do not advocate for or coordinate harm.

We Remove:

Harm against people

  • Outing: exposing the identity or locations affiliated with anyone who is alledged 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)
  • Coordinating, threatening, supporting, or admitting to swatting except in the context of awareness raising or condemnation, fictional or staged settings or redemption.
  • Depicting, promoting, advocating for or encouraging participation in a high-risk viral challenge except in the context of awareness raising or condemnation. Where imagery is depicted in these contexts, we include a label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive.

Harm against animals

  • Coordinating, threatening, supporting or admitting to acts of physical harm against animals (in written, visual or verbal form) except in cases of:
    • Awareness-raising or condemnation
    • Redemption
    • Survival or defense of self, another human or another animal
    • Fictional or staged settings EXCEPT where it depicts staged animal fights or fake animal rescues
    • Fishing
  • Coordinating, threatening, supporting, depicting or admitting to staged animal fights or depicting video imagery of fake animal rescues except in the context of awareness raising or condemnation or redemption.

Harm against property

  • Coordinating, threatening, supporting or admitting to vandalism or theft (in written, visual or verbal form), except in the context of
    • Awareness raising or condemnation,
    • Redemption,
    • Fictional or staged settings,
    • Admitting in the context of defense of self, or another human
    • depicting vandalism in protest context,
    • depicting graffiti, or
    • speaking positively about vandalism and theft committed by others.