Threats, Violence & Harm

We prohibit the following: 

• Encouraging, promoting, or glorifying self-harm, including self-injury, self-mutilation, suicide, or eating disorders. 

• Providing instructions or detailing methods of committing self-harm (including extreme dieting) or suicide. 

• Encouraging or engaging in violent or threatening behaviour, including any content expressing an intention to cause serious physical or emotional harm to a person, a group of people, or damage to property. Where content indicates a credible and imminent threat to human life or safety, our teams may alert law enforcement agencies who may be positioned to intervene. 

• Vigilante activity. This includes coordinated efforts to intimidate or take physical action against individuals or communities outside proper legal process. 

• Encouraging, promoting, providing instructions for, or engaging in dangerous behaviour. This includes engaging in activities likely to be imitated that could lead to serious harm or injury, such as high-risk challenges, stunts, reckless driving, or other behaviour that poses a risk to the person doing it, someone else, or the public. 

• Encouraging the ingesting, injection, inhalation, or other self-administering of physically harmful substances or of substances in sufficient quantities as to be physically harmful. 

• Content that glorifies, or risks inciting, violent or harmful behaviour toward people or animals.  

• Gratuitous or graphic violence, including animal abuse.