Threats, Violence & Harm Guidelines
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The safety and wellbeing of our community is a top priority at Parsafy. We do not allow content that threatens, incites, or graphically glorifies violence or dangerous behavior — whether directed at other people, at animals, or at oneself. Where content indicates an imminent threat to human life, Parsafy may alert law enforcement.
At the same time, Parsafy is a free-speech platform and we recognize that discussing, reporting on, documenting, and creating fiction about violence serves important journalistic, educational, historical, and artistic purposes. These guidelines draw a clear line between content that depicts or discusses violence in context and content that threatens, incites, or glorifies it.
Our approach to threats, violence, and harm is tailored to the situation. For threats to others, we act through policy enforcement and, where necessary, law enforcement referral. For signs of self-harm or crisis, our teams prioritize connecting users with appropriate resources and support — not simply removing content.
These guidelines should be read alongside our Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Safety & Support Resources.
⚠️ Threats & Intimidation
Parsafy prohibits content that expresses an intention to cause serious physical or emotional harm to a person, group of people, or their property. This includes:
- Direct or indirect threats of violence against a named or identifiable individual or group.
- Content that intimidates or threatens harm to a person's family members, including minor children.
- Threats tied to a person's protected characteristics — race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, immigration status, disability, or other identity.
- Threatening to damage or destroy someone's property.
- Posting someone's personal information alongside threatening language — a combination that constitutes a credible threat of physical harm.
- Content that encourages others to commit acts of violence against a specific individual or group.
✗ Prohibited
- "I'm going to hurt you if I see you."
- Posting someone's address with a statement like "someone should pay them a visit."
- Calling for violence against a named ethnic or religious group.
- Threats designed to silence a journalist, activist, or public figure.
✓ Permitted
- Reporting on or documenting threats made by others in a journalistic context.
- Fictional threats as part of clearly labeled creative writing or storytelling.
- Discussion of threatening behavior in a policy, safety, or educational context.
- Historical documentation of violent rhetoric or incitement.
🔴 Violent & Graphic Content
Parsafy prohibits gratuitous or graphic depictions of violence that serve no journalistic, educational, historical, or artistic purpose. What constitutes "gratuitous" depends on context — the same imagery may be appropriate in a news report and prohibited in an entertainment context designed purely for shock value.
Prohibited
- Graphic video or imagery of real violence — including assaults, executions, torture, or death — shared without news, educational, or documentary context.
- Content that glorifies, celebrates, or encourages real-world violence against people or groups.
- Content that incites others to commit acts of violence.
- Graphic depictions of animal abuse or animal cruelty shared for entertainment or shock value.
- Content that presents mass violence, atrocities, or terror attacks in a way that glorifies the perpetrators or the acts themselves.
✓ Generally Permitted
- News coverage of violent events, including war, civil unrest, and crime.
- Documentary and human rights content depicting violence in its real context.
- Historical documentation of atrocities, genocides, or state violence.
- Fiction, film, and creative content depicting violent themes in a clearly fictional frame.
- Combat sports and martial arts content involving consensual physical competition.
- Wildlife content showing animals in natural predator-prey interactions.
- Educational content about the causes, impacts, and prevention of violence.
✗ Prohibited
- Sharing violent footage purely for shock, entertainment, or to glorify the violence.
- Content framing real-world mass violence as heroic or justified.
- Graphic animal cruelty with no educational or documentary context.
- Content encouraging "challenge" behaviors that risk serious injury or death.
💙 Self-Harm & Suicide
Parsafy cares deeply about the wellbeing of our community. We do not allow content that glorifies, promotes, or provides detailed instructions for self-harm or suicide. At the same time, we recognize that discussion of these topics — in the context of awareness, support, recovery, and advocacy — is vital and should not be silenced.
Prohibited
- Content that glorifies, romanticizes, or presents self-harm or suicide as desirable, heroic, or aspirational.
- Detailed instructions, methods, or "how-to" content for self-harm or suicide.
- Content that encourages or dares others to harm themselves or end their lives.
- Content designed to shame, bully, or pressure a vulnerable person toward self-harm.
- Graphic imagery of self-inflicted wounds shared without educational or support context.
Permitted — Support, Awareness & Recovery
- Personal testimony about experiences with self-harm or suicidal ideation in a recovery or advocacy context.
- Mental health awareness content, crisis resource sharing, and suicide prevention advocacy.
- Journalistic, documentary, or research content about self-harm and suicide.
- Support communities for people experiencing mental health challenges.
- Safe messaging guidelines — content that discusses suicide or self-harm while following evidence-based safe messaging practices is encouraged.
🍃 Eating Disorders
Content that promotes, glorifies, or encourages eating disorders — including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and other dangerous restrictive or compensatory behaviors — is not permitted on Parsafy.
Prohibited
- Content that glorifies extreme restriction, starvation, or dangerous weight loss as aspirational or desirable.
- "Thinspiration" or "meanspo" content designed to encourage disordered eating.
- Content providing detailed tips, tricks, or methods for concealing eating disorder behaviors from family, friends, or healthcare providers.
- Content that shames individuals for eating or for their body size in a way designed to trigger or reinforce disordered eating.
- Communities or accounts whose primary purpose is to promote eating disorders as a lifestyle.
Permitted
- Personal recovery stories and advocacy by individuals with lived experience of eating disorders.
- Educational content about eating disorders — their causes, impacts, and treatment.
- Body-positive content that promotes healthy relationships with food and body image.
- Healthcare and clinical content about eating disorder treatment.
🐾 Animal Abuse
Content that depicts, glorifies, or encourages animal cruelty or abuse is prohibited on Parsafy. This includes:
- Videos or images of animals being deliberately harmed, tortured, or killed outside of a legitimate hunting, veterinary, or documentary context.
- Content that presents animal suffering as entertainment.
- Promotion of illegal animal fighting (dogfighting, cockfighting, etc.).
- Content encouraging others to harm animals.
Content involving animals in their natural environment — including predator-prey interactions and wildlife documentaries — is permitted. Veterinary and agricultural content involving animals in professional contexts is also permitted.
✅ What Is Permitted — Context & Purpose
Parsafy's free-speech commitment means that discussion, documentation, and creative exploration of violence, harm, and difficult human experiences is generally permitted where there is a legitimate purpose. The following are always permitted:
- Journalism & news: Reporting on, documenting, or analyzing violent events — including war, terrorism, crime, and state violence — in a journalistic context.
- Human rights documentation: Content documenting government repression, political violence, and human rights abuses — including in authoritarian contexts — is protected and will not be suppressed based on government pressure.
- Historical documentation: Content about historical atrocities, genocides, wars, and political violence in an educational or documentary context.
- Fiction & creative work: Films, books, games, and other creative works exploring themes of violence, threat, and harm within a clearly fictional frame.
- Safety & prevention education: Content about violence prevention, self-defense, bystander intervention, and crisis response.
- Survivor testimony: Personal accounts of violence, abuse, and trauma — shared in the person's own words for advocacy, healing, or awareness.
- Research & academic discourse: Scholarly content about violence, extremism, self-harm, and related topics.
⚙️ How We Respond
Parsafy's response to threats, violence, and harm is tailored to the nature of the content and the urgency of the situation.
Imminent Threat to Life
Where content indicates a credible, imminent threat to human life — whether a threat against another person or signs of acute suicidal crisis — Parsafy's teams may alert law enforcement or emergency services without prior notice to the user. This is our highest-priority response category.Signs of Self-Harm or Emotional Distress
When users report content suggesting a risk of self-harm or indicate they are experiencing a mental health crisis, our teams review these reports with a priority on providing helpful resources and potentially identifying opportunities for emergency services to intervene. We send localized crisis resources and connect users with expert support partners.Threats Against Others
Content that constitutes a direct threat against an identifiable individual or group is removed. The account responsible is notified and may be suspended or permanently terminated depending on the severity and context of the threat.Gratuitous or Glorifying Violence
Content that glorifies or incites real-world violence without journalistic or artistic context is reviewed and removed. We evaluate context carefully — the same content may be appropriate in one setting and prohibited in another.Proactive Resource Surfacing
When users search for or engage with certain topics related to mental health, self-harm, suicide, depression, anxiety, stress, grief, or bullying, Parsafy proactively surfaces localized expert resources in-app — regardless of whether a report has been made. See Safety & Support Resources.🚩 Reporting
If you see content on Parsafy that you believe violates these guidelines — or if you are concerned about a user who appears to be in distress — please report it immediately. Reports are reviewed by our teams with attention to urgency.
- In-app: Use the report button on any post, profile, or message.
- Online: Submit a detailed report through our Reporting Guide.
We also encourage users to reach out directly to someone they are concerned about. A message expressing care and asking if someone is okay can make a real difference. Additional guidance on how to support someone in crisis is available at Safety & Support Resources.
🛡️ Enforcement
Parsafy enforces these guidelines through automated detection, community reporting, and human review. Enforcement actions are proportionate to the nature and severity of the violation:
- Content removal: Violating content is removed promptly.
- Account restriction: Accounts involved in less severe violations may receive warnings and feature restrictions.
- Account suspension: Serious violations, including direct threats of violence, result in account suspension pending review.
- Permanent termination: Egregious violations — including credible threats of mass violence, repeated threatening behavior, or content glorifying terrorism — result in immediate permanent account termination.
- Law enforcement referral: Where content indicates imminent danger or constitutes criminal conduct, Parsafy may refer the matter to law enforcement without prior notice.
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