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Facebook gives detailed guidelines on why it may ban users
Facebook has for the first time detailed exactly what it will ban. The company is publishing detailed guidelines about what it will allow to be published on its service – and what it will not.
In all, the document takes up 27 pages and covers the specifics of what sorts of nudity and abuse will be allowed on the service.
Many of those rules were already made clear on Facebook’s “community standards” page. But it has now published them and made them more specific, spelling out the sometimes uncomfortable details of what it will allow.
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It says that the site will ban posts that are credible violent threats or revel in sexual violence; promote terrorism or the poaching of endangered species; attempt to buy marijuana, sell firearms, or list prescription drug prices for sale; post instructions for self-injury; depict minors in a sexual context; or commit multiple homicides at different times or locations.
The updated community standards will mirror the rules its 7,600 moderators use to review questionable posts, and then decide if they should be pulled off Facebook and sometimes whether to call in the authorities.
The standards themselves aren’t changing, but the details reveal some interesting tidbits. Photos of breasts are OK in some cases — such as breastfeeding or in a painting — but not in others.
The document details what counts as sexual exploitation of adults or minors, but leaves room to ban more forms of abuse, should it arise.
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