Banrequest – online petitions

Ban Request is an organization dedicated to stopping online bullying, harassment and crime. We help users create ban petitions for various platforms where they are being harassed or abused. Our goal is to make the internet a safe place for everyone.

Facebook

Facebook has guidelines regarding safety, objectional content, integrity and authenticity and intellectual property. The platform doesn’t allow anything that promotes or facilitates any type of exploitation, including child or adult sexual exploitation, child abuse or nudity and human trafficking.

Hate speech and violent or graphic imagery are not allowed. Sexually graphic images or sexual solicitation are also forbidden.

Facebook doesn’t allow any types of bullying or harassment. They will take down material that violates another user’s private information.

Facebook also aims for authenticity on its platform. Fake or inauthentic accounts are not allowed. They’re also attempting to regulate fake news and manipulated media. Users are not allowed to spam others or engage in inauthentic behavior.

When users post or share on Facebook, their original content is their intellectual property. Facebook also encourages users to make sure they have the right to share content that isn’t theirs before posting.

Instagram

Instagram has a few safeguards in place regarding accounts, most of which are listed in their community guidelines. Users are required to be over 13 years old and cannot be convicted sex offenders. Instagram also requires accounts to be authentic. Users can be banned for impersonating another person or creating a fake account.

Users are not allowed to post another person’s private or personal information or share their intellectual property without first obtaining permission. Users are not allowed to spam others. They cannot buy likes or followers or obtain them in an unnatural way.

Instagram doesn’t allow any type of illegal activity. Hate speech, threats or any posts advocating terrorism aren’t allowed. The platform doesn’t allow any form of cyberbullying, such as shaming or degradation. Users aren’t allowed to post any type of sexual content of minors or intimate images of another person.

Instagram also has some broader regulations meant to regulate behavior that may not be illegal but can be detrimental to other users. They don’t allow any type of glorification of suicide or self-harm. Users should be uplifting and encouraging, not tearing others down, especially those who are facing adversity.

Instagram also encourages users to be thoughtful when posting about current events. Users should consider the people who may be suffering and be respectful in their images and language.

Snapchat

Snapchat’s founders were among the first generation to grow up with social media, and so have a slightly different perspective on its effects. They designed the app to be a place to share with personal friends, not a faceless group of followers.

Snapchat requires compliance from both users before a connection is made. Unlike other social media platforms, posts only last for a short time and can’t be pulled back up later.

Users who are under 18 are not allowed to have a public profile. The company is working on an algorithm to keep minors out of the Quick Add feature, which lets users discover new people.

Snapchat doesn’t allow sexually explicit content, including the sexual exploitation of children. Bullying and harassment are against their guidelines. Someone may not contact you through another account once you’ve blocked them. If someone posts a picture of you, they must remove it if you ask them.

Snapchat doesn’t allow images of violence or posts that glorify violence, terrorism or self-harm. Posts promoting hate speech and hate groups are also prohibited. Snapchat cannot be used for any type of illegal activity.

Twitch

Twitch doesn’t allow any content that promotes hate speech or harassment. Users are allowed to discuss these issues, but only for the purpose of education or satire. Twitch guidelines are very specific about the type of hateful and harassing content that isn’t allowed and regards what users can say, wear and promote in their videos. Usernames and emotes must also comply with community guidelines.

Any form of sexual or physical harassment isn’t tolerated. Users aren’t allowed to target another user for harassment or encourage others to do so. Sexually explicit content is prohibited. Users are expected to wear appropriate clothing. Games also cannot contain nudity or pornographic material.

Any game that violates Twitch community guidelines is prohibited. Games that are rated for adults are also forbidden.

Any content created by a user is their intellectual property. Users aren’t allowed to use other users’ content without permission.

In addition to guidelines about how users behave on the platform, Twitch also has guidelines about how their creators behave on other online platforms and in the real world. Users who engage in hate speech, violent crime, terrorism and other extreme offenses will be removed from the platform.

Twitter

Twitter doesn’t allow any illegal activities. Harassment, bullying and hate speech aren’t allowed. Twitter doesn’t want anyone to feel like they’re not safe on the platform and prohibits any form of abuse. They also don’t allow sexual exploitation of minors or the use of sexual content without the person’s consent.

Twitter users may not misrepresent themselves and cannot use the platform as a manipulation tool, such as in elections. Users aren’t allowed to post fake news.

Users may not post another person’s private information without their consent. They’re also not allowed to impersonate another person.

YouTube

YouTube doesn’t allow any forms of hate speech on its platform. Sexual harassment and bullying are forbidden. Users may not post any sort of symbols representing violent criminal or terrorist organizations.

YouTube does allow violent or graphic content, but there are guidelines. If the content is used in context, then it’s likely okay. However, if the content is only meant to shock or disgust viewers, then it’s not allowed.

Users aren’t allowed to post videos that incite violence or dangerous behavior. While these types of videos are allowed in context, videos that encourage users to try a potentially harmful challenge are against community guidelines.