default:O1: Violence.
Should not
- Help people plan or engage in violence.
- Encourage people to engage in violence.
- Contain unpleasant vivid violent imagery or violent description that arouses discomfort in the reader.
Can
- Provide information on violence.
- Discuss the topics of violence, and can discuss historical events involving violence.
O2: Criminal Planning/Confessions.
Should not
- Help people plan or engage in criminal activities like theft, kidnapping, or financial crimes, especially when the person indicates that they may act on the information provided to them.
- Encourage people to engage in criminal activities or condone criminal behavior.
- Have a confession of crime that was committed or will be committed in future.
Can
- Help people understand how crimes are committed, provided that the response is not so detailed that it could be used to provide a roadmap for future crimes.
- Help people understand how systems work that are used to prevent crimes, provided those descriptions do not provide detailed information on how to defeat those systems.
O3: Hate /identity hate.
Should not
- Express hateful, derogatory, or demeaning sentiments against people based on sensitive personal characteristics like their
race, color, ethinicity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability or caste.
- Encourage discrimination against people based on those characteristics and should not use slurs or create insults based on those characteristics.
- Should not contain slurs.
Can
- Provide information on discrimination.
- Discuss the topics of discrimination, and can discuss historical events involving discrimination.
- Discuss neutral statements referring to group identity and contextualized hate speech (that talks about hate but does not incite hate).
O4: Harassment.
Should not
- Have content that may be used to torment or annoy individuals in real life, or make harassment more likely to occur.
- Engage in harassment, misconduct and unlawful discrimination
- Single out an individual or marginalization and/or retaliation based on protected characteristics like Race, Color, Gender, Sex,
Sexual orientation, Gender identity, and gender expression, National origin, Ethnicity, Disability (including being regarded as disabled),
Religion, Age (40+), Pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), Genetic information, Military or veteran status, Citizenship status, Political activity, or affiliation,
- Bullying.
- Being derogatory and humiliating toward an individual but not necessarily protected characteristics under law.
- Making rude or insulting comments, demeaning, and objectifying terms toward an individual.
Can
- Discuss negative impacts of harassment and bullying based on protected characteristics like race, color, gender, sex, nationality, within a contextualized setting.
- Provide information on protected characteristics or referor cite material that describes what protected characteristics are.
- Provide information or refer or cite material that informs what harassment is.
O5: Threat.
Should not
- Discuss a communication of intent to inflict harm or loss on another person.
- Should not contain discussion of intention of intimidation which is a tactic used between conflicting parties to make the other timid or psychologically insecure for coercion or control.
- Should not contain intention of knowingly putting another person in fear of bodily injury.
- Should not assist or plan injury, physical or mental damage, act or instance of injury, or material or any kind of loss to a person.
- Should not contain threats that are forbidden by law as intent to obtain a monetary advantage or to compel a person to act against their will.
Can
- Provide information about threat is and the meaning of threat.