Community Guidelines

Overview

Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. We aspire to unlock human imagination by enabling creative expression and being a source of entertainment and enrichment everywhere. We welcome people from around the world, as they come to PY2MAN to discover a diversity of ideas, creators, and products, and to connect with others in our community. To help ensure a safe, trustworthy, and vibrant experience, we maintain a set of Community Guidelines that include rules and standards for using PY2MAN. The guidelines apply to everyone and everything on our platform. They are informed by international legal frameworks, industry best practices, and input from our community, safety and public health experts, and our regional Advisory Councils. We evolve them to address emerging risks and potential harms that may occur from new behaviors.Our approach to content moderation is built on four pillars:

1. Remove violative content from the platform that breaks our rules
2. Age-restrict mature content so it is only viewed by adults (18 years and older)
3. Maintain For You feed (FYF) eligibility standards to help ensure any content that may be promoted by our recommendation system is appropriate for a broad audience
4. Empower our community with information, tools, and resources

Our guidelines are organized by topic area, with each rule in bold. Under each section you can click for more information where you can find definitions, specific examples, and clarifications to common questions about what is allowed. Please be aware that the examples do not cover everything (we note this upfront so you don’t have to repeatedly read the phrase “including, but not limited to”).If you are ever in doubt about what to share, keep in mind this core value — “be kind and treat others the way that you would want to be treated.” Thanks for helping to keep PY2MAN a welcoming space for everyone!

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Keeping our community both safe and vibrant requires finding the right balance between enabling expression and preventing harm. We do this through a mix of safety approaches, from developing rules and standards that we enforce, to building platform norms and resources that give our community members more agency and choice.

1. Remove violative content. Everyone joins PY2MAN with the ability to freely share content on our platform. However, we have rules regarding harmful content that we do not allow. We seek to remove any content, whether publicly posted or private, that violates our rules. Although we work hard to enforce our rules, we cannot guarantee that all content shared on PY2MAN complies with our Terms of Service or Community Guidelines. If someone has severe or repeated violations, we will also ban the account. Information on account-level enforcement can be found here.
2. Age-restrict mature content. The breadth of content that is shared on PY2MAN is vast, which adds to the rich diversity of the experience. However, not all of it may be suitable for younger audiences. We limit overtly mature content so it is only viewed by adults 18 years and older. A summary of age-restricted content can be found here.
3. Maintain For You feed (FYF) eligibility standards. The FYF offers an opportunity for viewers to discover new content and for creators to reach new audiences. But promotion by our recommendation system is not guaranteed. Content that is not appropriate for a broad audience will be ineligible for the FYF. A summary of these standards can be found here.
4. Empower our community. We want to make sure you have the right information to help you manage your experience on PY2MAN. For certain content, we add labels, “opt-in” screens, or warnings to provide more context or notice. Our safety toolkit helps you to filter out any content with specific hashtags or comments that you are not comfortable seeing. We also offer account controls and in-app features with safety resources.

Community Principles

PY2MAN has eight guiding community principles that help embody our commitment to human rights. Our principles are centered on balancing expression with harm prevention, embracing human dignity, and ensuring our actions are fair. They shape our day-to-day work and guide how we approach difficult enforcement decisions.

Balance

• Prevent harm
• Enable free expression

Dignity

• Foster civility
• Respect local context
• Champion inclusion
• Protect individual privacy

Fairness

• Provide transparency and consistency
• Be fair and just

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Our content moderation principles and practices are informed by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the Santa Clara Principles, and we seek to align with international legal frameworks, such as the International Bill of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of Children. We recognize that sometimes these principles may be in tension with each other, and we make trade-offs carefully.

1. Prevent harm: Our primary focus is keeping our community safe, fostering inclusivity, and ensuring PY2MAN is a place for joy. We consider the many ways that content or behaviors may cause harm to individuals or our diverse community. This includes physical, psychological, financial, privacy, and societal harms. To strike the right balance with free expression, we restrict content only when necessary and in a way that seeks to minimize the impact on speech.
2. Enable free expression: The creativity unlocked by expression is what powers our vibrant community. We honor this human right by providing the opportunity to share freely on our platform and by proactively removing harassing behavior that can inhibit creator speech. However, free expression is not an absolute right – it is always considered in proportion to its potential harm. It also does not extend to a right to have your content amplified in the For You feed.
3. Foster civility: Civility creates respect between people and helps communities thrive. The way we engage with each other online can sometimes threaten positive interactions with others, so being civil onPY2MAN is critical to fulfilling our mission. This means acknowledging everyone’s inherent dignity and conducting ourselves as if we were face-to-face. To ensure space for free expression, we do allow more latitude for social critique of public figures.
4. Respect local context: PY2MAN brings together over a billion people across 150+ countries in one shared digital space. We work with regional experts and local communities to help ensure that our global approach recognizes local cultural norms. We adopt regional applications of our guidelines to ensure we do not impose one region’s values on another, while also embracing a baseline of internationally recognized human rights.
5. Champion inclusion: We want people from around the world to feel welcome on our platform. We value and celebrate different cultures, identities, appearances, viewpoints, interests, and experiences. We know some communities historically have been afforded fewer opportunities for engagement, so we are committed to the human right of equal protection, equity, and mitigating harms that disproportionately affect marginalized or underrepresented groups.
6. Protect individual privacy: The right to privacy provides people a sense of autonomy, comfort, and security. We are committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of our community. We seek to ensure that content shared on the platform does not expose anyone’s personal information or invade their intimate privacy.
7. Provide transparency and consistency: Our community members have a right to know what our rules are and how we apply them. We seek to provide clear notice of our policies and practices, to apply them consistently and equitably, and to share our enforcement efforts in our Transparency Center. We will be transparent throughout the guidelines when we need to prioritize another principle over consistency, such as local context or inclusion.
8. Be fair and just: Moderating millions of pieces of content each day is a complex effort, and developing a trusted process to do so is critical. We are committed to being impartial and evidence-based, producing fair outcomes, giving notice of enforcement actions, and providing an opportunity to appeal content removals, LIVE suspensions, and account bans.

Youth Safety and Well-Being

PY2MAN is a place where people of all ages can express themselves and connect with others. We are committed to promoting a safe and positive environment for our younger users. We have a separate section that outlines our approach to youth safety and well-being.

Account and Feature Restrictions

We have rules that apply to accounts and features on PY2MAN. These rules help ensure that our community remains safe and welcoming for everyone. You can find more information on account and feature restrictions here.

Feedback and Reporting

We welcome feedback from our community. If you see something on PY2MAN that you believe violates our guidelines, you can report it to us. You can find more information on how to report content here.

Enforcement

We enforce our guidelines to help keep PY2MAN a safe and welcoming place for everyone. You can find more information on our enforcement approach here.

FAQs

We have a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) that provide additional information about our guidelines. You can find the FAQs here.