Community standards and guidelines of Eduscope Digital

Community standards and guidelines of Eduscope Digital

Violence and criminal behavior

We aim to avoid any potential harm that may be caused by the content created using the Eduscope Digital platform. While we recognize that threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways is a common way for people to express their disdain or disagreement, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. When we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or a direct threat to public safety, we remove content, disable accounts, and collaborate with law enforcement agencies to ensure public safety

Dangerous individuals and organisations

We do not allow any organizations or individuals who proclaim a violent mission or engage in violence to have a presence on Eduscope Digital in order to prevent and disrupt real-world harm.

This includes organizations or individuals engaged in the following activities:

• Terrorist action
• Hatred that has been organized
• Multiple murder or mass murder (including attempts).
• Human smuggling / trafficking
• Violence or criminal activity that is planned

We also remove content that expresses support or praise for the organizations, leaders, or individuals involved in these activities.

Fraud and deception

We remove content that purposefully deceives, wilfully misrepresents, or otherwise defrauds or exploits others for money or property in order to prevent fraudulent activity that can harm people or businesses. This includes any content that attempts to coordinate or promote these activities through the use of our services.

Child sexual exploitation, abuse and nudity

Do not have the following in your course content.

We do not allow content that sexually exploits or puts children in danger.

When we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or a direct threat to public safety, we remove content, disable accounts, and collaborate with law enforcement agencies to ensure public safety

Content that threatens, depicts, praises, supports, provides instructions for, makes statements of intent, admits participation in or shares links of the sexual exploitation of children (real or non-real minors, toddlers or babies), including but not limited to:

• Sexual intercourse
• Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person’s genitals or anus, where at least one person’s genitals are nude.
  Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
• Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
• Presence of by-products of sexual activity.
• Any of the above involving an animal.
• Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
• Restraints.
• Focus on genitals.
• Presence of aroused adult.
• Presence of sex toys.
• Sexualised costume.
• Stripping.
• Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles).
• Open-mouth kissing.
• Content of children in a sexual fetish context.
• Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in paedophilia, unless it is discussed neutrally in an academic or verified health context.
• Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image.

Solicitation

• Content that solicits imagery of child sexual exploitation, or nude or sexualised images or videos of children.
• Inappropriate interactions with children
• Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
• Initiating unsolicited contact with minors (for example, private messages between stranger adults and minors).
• Soliciting or arranging real-world sexual encounters or obtaining sexual material from a minor directly.
• Displaying nudity to minors.
• Content that attempts to exploit minors by:
• Coercing money, favours or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information.
• Sharing, threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations.
• Sexualisation of children
• Content that solicits imagery of child sexual exploitation, or nude or sexualised images or videos of children
• Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content and verbal depictions) that shows children in a sexualised context.
  Groups, Pages and profiles targeted at sexualising children.
• Child nudity
• Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as:
• Close-ups of children’s genitalia
  Real nude toddlers, showing:
• Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing.
  Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
  Real nude minors, showing:
• Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
  Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
  Uncovered female nipples.
• No clothes from neck to knee – even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing.
  Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, toddlers or babies, unless the image is for health or educational purposes.
• Non-sexual child abuse
• Imagery that depicts non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent
• Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse.

Sexual exploitation of adults

Do not have the following in your course content.

In instances where content consists of any form of non-consensual sexual touching, crushing, necrophilia or bestiality, or forced stripping, including the items listed below, we will remove the content, disable accounts, and collaborate with law enforcement agencies to ensure public safety.

• Depictions (including real photos/videos), or
• Advocacy (including aspirational and conditional statements), or
  Statements of intent, or
• Calls for action, or
  Threatening, soliciting or stating an intent to share imagery, or
  Admitting participation, or
  Mocking victims of any of the above
• Content that attempts to exploit people by any of the following:
• Sextortion: Coercing money, favours or intimate imagery from people with threats to expose their intimate imagery or intimate information
  Sharing, threatening, stating an intent to share, offering or asking for imagery known as “Revenge porn” or “Non-consensual intimate images” that fulfils all three of the following conditions:
• Image / Video is non-commercial or produced in a private setting
  Person in the image is (near) nude, engaged in sexual activity or in a sexual pose
  Lack of consent to share the image is indicated by:
• Vengeful context (for example, caption, comments or Page title)
  Independent sources (for example, law enforcement record) including entertainment media (for example, leak of images confirmed by media)
• A visible match between the person depicted in the image and the person who has reported the content to us
• The person who reported the content to us shares the same name as the person depicted in the image
• Secretly taken non-commercial imagery of a real person’s commonly sexualised body parts (breasts, groin, buttocks or thighs) or of a real person engaged in sexual activity.
• This imagery is commonly known as “creepshots” or “upskirts” and includes photos or videos that mock, sexualise or expose the person depicted in the imagery.
• Threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations that meet the following criteria:
• Lack of consent is indicated by:

Vengeful context and/or threatening context, or
A visible match between the person depicted in the image and the person who has reported the content to us
The person who reported the content to us shares the same name as the person depicted in the image

Bullying and harassment

Do not have the following in your course content.

Repeatedly contact someone in a manner that is:

• Unwanted or Sexually harassing or Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
• Target anyone maliciously by:
• Calling for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
• Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment or domestic abuse.
• Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person or group of people.
• Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut).
• Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
• Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies or terrorist attacks by name or by image, with claims that they are:
• Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event.
• Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
• Threatening to release an individual’s private phone number, residential address or email address.
• Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity.
• Creating Pages or groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
• Calling for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
• Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity.
• Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease.
• Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread:
• Targeted cursing.
• Calls for death, serious disease, disability, epidemic disease or physical harm.
• Target private individuals, involuntary public figures or public figures who are minors with:
• Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
• Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
• Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases.
• Pages or groups created to attack through:
• Targeted cursing.
• Negative physical descriptions.
• Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
• Expressions of contempt or disgust.
• Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
• Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
• For adults:
• Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
• Claims about sexually transmitted diseases
• Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
• Content that praises, celebrates or mocks their death or medical condition.
• For minors:
• Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow”, “monkey”, “potato”).
• Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear etc.).
• Target private individuals or involuntary public figures with:
• Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow”, “monkey”, “potato”).
• Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear etc.).
• Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
• Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality.
• Content sexualising another adult.
• Content that further degrades or expresses disgust towards individuals who are depicted menstruating, urinating, vomiting or defecating.
• Content that further degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied.
• Content that praises, celebrates or mocks their death or serious physical injury.
• In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or groups:
• Negative character or ability claims.
• Self-referential bullying only if the object targets more than one private individual.
• Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
• Targeted cursing.
• Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
• Coordination, advocation or promotion of exclusion.
• Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults. We allow criminal allegations so that people can draw attention to personal experiences or offline events. In cases where criminal allegations pose real-world harm to the named individual, however, we may remove them.
• Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
• Target private individuals who are minors with:
• Allegations about criminal or illegal behaviour.
• Videos of physical bullying shared in a non-condemning context.
• Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
• Self-referential bullying.
• Unwanted manipulated imagery.
• Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
• Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
• Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger”, “lion”).
• Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
• Non-negative character or ability claims.
• Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context.
• Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.