Hateful Content, Terrorism & Violent Extremism Guidelines
Community Guidelines Explainer Series
Parsafy AI has zero tolerance for content that incites real-world violence, promotes terrorism, or dehumanizes people based on who they are. These are among the most serious harms a platform can host — and they are incompatible with the free, open community Parsafy exists to serve.
At the same time, Parsafy is a free-speech platform. Discussing, analyzing, criticizing, satirizing, or documenting hateful ideologies, extremist movements, and political violence is not the same as promoting them — and it is often essential work. Journalism, counter-extremism research, human rights documentation, and survivor testimony all require the ability to engage directly with difficult and disturbing content. These guidelines draw a careful line between content that promotes harm and content that confronts, exposes, or helps us understand it.
To ensure responsible enforcement, our teams consult with civil rights organizations, human rights experts, counter-extremism specialists, and safety advocates. We are committed to continuous refinement of these policies.
These guidelines should be read alongside our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service.
🗣️ Free Speech & These Rules — The Critical Distinction
Parsafy's prohibitions in this area target a specific, narrow category of content: speech that dehumanizes people based on protected characteristics, promotes organizations whose purpose is mass violence, or incites real-world harm. These prohibitions are not about suppressing uncomfortable, controversial, or offensive ideas.
The test we apply: Does the content promote or facilitate hatred and violence, or does it discuss, document, analyze, or critique it? These are fundamentally different acts, and Parsafy treats them differently.
Criticizing a religion, ideology, ethnic group's political leadership, government policy, or cultural practice is not hate speech — even when the criticism is harsh, pointed, or deeply unpopular. Producing content that calls for violence against members of that group, or that systematically dehumanizes them as subhuman, is.
Documenting terrorist attacks, analyzing extremist ideology, publishing survivor accounts of genocide, or satirizing political violence is not promoting terrorism — even when the content is graphic or disturbing. Recruiting for a terrorist organization, raising funds for violent extremist groups, or publishing content designed to inspire acts of mass violence is.
🚫 Hate Speech
Parsafy prohibits hate speech — defined as content that dehumanizes, demeans, or calls for discrimination or violence against individuals or groups based on protected characteristics. The focus of this prohibition is on content that attacks people based on who they are, not content that criticizes ideas, institutions, or practices.
Protected Characteristics
Hate speech protections apply to content targeting individuals or groups based on:
- Race, color, and ethnicity
- Caste and national origin
- Religion and religious identity
- Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Disability status
- Veteran status
- Immigration status
- Socioeconomic status
- Age, weight, and pregnancy status
What Constitutes Hate Speech
- Content that portrays a protected group as subhuman, vermin, parasites, or otherwise less than human.
- Calls for violence, discrimination, or persecution against members of a protected group.
- Content that systematically degrades, demeans, or humiliates a protected group in a way designed to incite hatred.
- Content that glorifies perpetrators of hate crimes, ethnic cleansing, or genocide on the basis of the targeted group's protected characteristics.
- Content that reinforces harmful stereotypes specifically to degrade and demean a protected group — not mere commentary on stereotypes, but use of them as weapons of degradation.
✗ Hate Speech — Prohibited
- Calling for ethnic cleansing or the elimination of a religious group.
- Portraying immigrants as an infestation or subhuman threat.
- Content that calls LGBTQ+ people subhuman or calls for violence against them.
- Holocaust glorification targeting Jewish people as a group.
- Content celebrating hate crimes against members of a protected group.
✓ Protected Expression
- Criticism of religious doctrines, texts, or institutions.
- Criticism of political ideologies or movements associated with a particular group.
- Debate about immigration policy, affirmative action, or other contested policy questions.
- Comedy and satire involving group identity — where the purpose is humor, not dehumanization.
- Counter-speech directly quoting or engaging with hateful content to challenge it.
🔣 Hate Symbols
Parsafy prohibits the use of hate symbols — imagery specifically associated with hatred, discrimination, or violent extremism against protected groups. This includes symbols featured in credible hate symbol databases, including those maintained by the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and similar organizations.
Prohibited Uses
- Displaying hate symbols in a promotional, celebratory, or endorsing context — affirming the ideology they represent.
- Using hate symbols to target or harass members of the groups they historically target.
- Incorporating hate symbols into content designed to recruit for hate groups or extremist organizations.
Context-Dependent Uses
- Educational and documentary contexts: Displaying hate symbols to document, analyze, critique, or counter the ideologies they represent is permitted — provided the context makes clear the purpose is educational or counter-speech, not endorsement.
- News and journalism: Reproducing hate symbols in the context of news coverage of hate crimes, extremist movements, or related events is permitted.
- Artistic contexts: Hate symbols may appear in art, film, literature, and other creative work where their presence serves the work's critical or historical purpose.
- Historical documentation: Hate symbols in archival, historical, or academic contexts are permitted.
💀 Glorification of Human Atrocities
Parsafy prohibits content that glorifies perpetrators — or denigrates victims — of documented human atrocities, including genocide, ethnic cleansing, slavery, apartheid, and mass political violence, where such glorification or denigration targets victims based on their protected characteristics.
Prohibited
- Content that celebrates the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the Armenian genocide, the Cambodian genocide, or other documented genocides as achievements or good outcomes.
- Content that glorifies the architects or perpetrators of slavery, apartheid, or ethnic cleansing as heroes.
- Content that denigrates or mocks victims of genocide or mass atrocity based on their protected characteristics.
- Content claiming these atrocities were justified, deserved, or beneficial based on the characteristics of the targeted group.
✓ Protected
- Historical education and documentary content about atrocities.
- Survivor testimony and memorial content.
- Academic analysis of the causes and impacts of atrocities.
- Journalism covering atrocity commemoration and denial.
- Artistic engagement with themes of genocide and mass violence.
- Criticism of how atrocities are commemorated or taught.
✗ Prohibited
- "The Holocaust was necessary and good" — glorification of genocide.
- "Slaves deserved their treatment" — denigrating victims based on protected characteristics.
- Content framing apartheid architects as heroes to be celebrated.
- Content mocking genocide survivors for their group membership.
🚨 Terrorism & Violent Extremism
Parsafy prohibits all content that promotes terrorism or other violent criminal acts committed by individuals or groups to further ideological goals. This prohibition extends to designated foreign terrorist organizations and domestic extremist hate groups that advocate mass violence.
Prohibited
- Content that promotes, glorifies, celebrates, or advocates for terrorist attacks, terrorist organizations, or their perpetrators.
- Recruitment for terrorist organizations or violent extremist movements — including content designed to radicalize vulnerable individuals toward violence.
- Fundraising for designated terrorist organizations or their affiliated entities.
- Distributing terrorist propaganda — material specifically designed to inspire acts of mass violence.
- Providing operational support for terrorist activity — including instructions, planning assistance, or logistical coordination.
- Content promoting or glorifying violent extremist ideology — including white supremacist, neo-Nazi, jihadist, or other movements that advocate mass violence as a political tool.
- Operating accounts on behalf of designated terrorist organizations or their leadership.
✓ Protected Expression
- Journalism and documentary coverage of terrorist attacks and extremist movements.
- Counter-extremism research and analysis — including direct engagement with extremist content to understand and challenge it.
- Academic study of terrorism, radicalization, and political violence.
- Survivor and victim testimony from terrorist attacks.
- Policy debate about counter-terrorism approaches, civil liberties, and related issues.
- Satire and artistic engagement with extremist ideologies.
- Historical documentation of terrorist organizations and their activities.
✗ Prohibited
- Celebrating a terrorist attack as a heroic act.
- Posting ISIS recruitment videos with endorsing commentary.
- Fundraising appeals for designated terrorist organizations.
- Content designed to radicalize users toward committing acts of violence.
- Operating as a propaganda outlet for a terrorist organization.
🌍 State Violence, Repression & Human Rights
Parsafy recognizes that governments and state actors can commit atrocities, terrorism, and systematic hate-based violence. Documentation of state violence, government repression, and human rights abuses — including by authoritarian regimes — is not only permitted on Parsafy but represents some of the most important content our platform can host.
✓ Fully Protected
- Documentation of government crackdowns, mass arrests, executions, and systematic repression.
- Coverage of state-sponsored violence against ethnic, religious, or political minorities.
- Advocacy by diaspora communities documenting abuses in their home countries.
- Journalism and human rights reporting from within authoritarian states.
- Content criticizing governments accused of genocide, ethnic cleansing, or mass atrocity.
- Organizing and advocacy by opposition movements, dissidents, and civil society actors.
✗ Prohibited
- Content glorifying state-sponsored genocide or ethnic cleansing.
- Government-affiliated propaganda designed to incite violence against minority groups.
- Content that dehumanizes ethnic or religious minorities targeted by state persecution.
- Coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of authoritarian governments.
✅ What Is Protected — The Full Scope
To be absolutely clear about the breadth of protected expression under these guidelines:
Journalism & Reporting
Coverage of hate groups, terrorist attacks, extremist movements, and state violence — including graphic or disturbing content where editorially justified.
Counter-Extremism Research
Academic and activist analysis of hateful ideologies and extremist movements, including direct quotation and reproduction of extremist material for the purpose of critique.
Art & Satire
Creative engagement with themes of hatred, political violence, and extremism — including dark humor, satire, and fictional portrayals that may be uncomfortable.
Survivor Testimony
Personal accounts from survivors of hate crimes, terrorism, genocide, and political persecution — including graphic descriptions of what they experienced.
Policy Debate
Discussion and debate about counter-terrorism policy, immigration, civil liberties, religious law, and other contested political and social questions.
Religious Criticism
Criticism of religious doctrines, institutions, texts, and practices — including atheist, secular, and interfaith perspectives that challenge specific religious beliefs.
Human Rights Advocacy
Advocacy by diaspora communities, political dissidents, and civil society organizations documenting and opposing persecution in their home countries.
Historical Documentation
Educational and archival content about genocide, apartheid, slavery, colonialism, and other historical atrocities — including primary source material.
Offensive Opinion
Opinions that others find deeply offensive, hurtful, or objectionable — as long as they do not cross into dehumanization, incitement to violence, or terrorist promotion.
🔍 Context & Contested Cases
Some of the most important cases under these guidelines involve content that is not clearly prohibited or clearly protected — where context, framing, and intent determine how we respond. Our approach in contested cases:
Armed Conflict & Resistance Movements
The designation of groups as "terrorist" organizations is politically contested — governments disagree about which groups qualify, and the same organization may be designated by one government and supported by another. Parsafy does not automatically adopt any government's designation list as our enforcement standard. We evaluate content based on whether it promotes mass violence against civilians and dehumanizes people based on protected characteristics — not solely on whether a government has applied a "terrorist" label.
Context-Dependent Hate Symbols
Some symbols have multiple meanings across different communities and contexts — a symbol that is a hate symbol in one context may be a religious or cultural symbol in another. We evaluate the use and context of symbols rather than applying blanket rules based on symbol identification alone.
Satire That Uses Extremist Framing
Effective satire of extremism sometimes requires adopting extremist framing, language, or imagery to expose its absurdity. We evaluate whether satirical content is likely to be understood as critique or likely to be used as genuine propaganda — context, framing, and the creator's established voice all matter.
⚙️ Enforcement
Parsafy enforces these guidelines through automated detection, community reporting, and human review. Our teams consult with civil rights organizations, counter-extremism experts, and human rights specialists to ensure enforcement is accurate, consistent, and sensitive to context.
Enforcement Actions
- Content removal: Hate speech, terrorist propaganda, and content glorifying atrocities are removed upon discovery.
- Account restriction: Accounts engaged in repeated or escalating violations of these guidelines may have their features restricted.
- Account termination: Accounts that operate on behalf of terrorist organizations, hate groups, or that engage in egregious or repeated violations of these guidelines are permanently terminated.
- Law enforcement referral: Content indicating planning or preparation for terrorist attacks or mass violence is referred to law enforcement without prior notice to the user.
On high-reach surfaces — including the Discovery Feed and Parsafy TV — we proactively moderate for content that may violate these guidelines. We also rely heavily on user reports, which help surface content our automated systems may miss.
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