Standards against Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (CSAE)

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Policy rationale

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We have a zero tolerance policy towards any form of child sexual exploitation and abuse. For the purposes of this policy, a child is anyone under the age of 18. We don’t allow content that sexualizes or endangers children, real or fictional (e.g. anime, digital images, media, text, illustrations). This includes any visual depictions, sharing third party links, or discussions of sexually explicit conduct involving a child. It is prohibited to upload, store, produce, share, or entice anyone to share child sexual abuse material (CSAM), even if the intent is to express outrage or raise awareness about this issue.

 

When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), in compliance with the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO). We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions. However, we generally remove these images when they are reported, because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.

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Buddy Up Network Does Not Allow: 

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Child sexual exploitation.

Content, activity or interactions that threaten, depict, praise, support, provide instructions for, make statements of intent, admit participation in or share links of the sexual exploitation of children (including real minors, toddlers or babies, or non-real depictions with a human likeness, such as in art, AI-generated content, fictional characters, dolls etc.). This includes, but is not limited to, Sexual intercourse

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• Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, when at least one person's genitals or anus is visible.

• Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.

• Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.

• Any of the above involving an animal.

 

Children with sexual elements, including, but not limited to,

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• Restraints

• Signs of arousal

• Focus on genitals or anus

• Presence of aroused adult

• Presence of sex toys or use of any object for sexual stimulation, gratification or sexual abuse

• Sexualised costume

• Stripping

• Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)

• Open-mouth kissing

• Stimulation of human nipples or squeezing of female breast (EXCEPT in the context of breastfeeding)

• Presence of by-products of sexual activity

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Content involving children in a sexual fetish context

 

Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in paedophilia, unless it is discussed neutrally in a health context

 

Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image

 

Solicitation

 

Content that solicits sexual content or activity depicting or involving children, defined as:

• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM)

• Nude imagery of real or non-real children

• Sexualised imagery of real or non-real children

 

Content that solicits sexual encounters with children

 

Inappropriate interactions with children

 

Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:

• Arranging or planning sexual encounters with children

• Enticing children to engage in sexual activity through sexualised conversations or offering, displaying, obtaining or requesting sexual material to or from children, through purposeful exposure or in private messages

• Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children

• Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages

 

Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion

Content that attempts to exploit real children by:

 

• Coercing money, favours or intimate imagery with threats to expose real or non-real intimate imagery or information

• Sharing, threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or real or non-real intimate imagery

 

Sexualisation of children

• Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content and verbal depictions) that sexualises real or non-real children

• Groups, Pages and profiles dedicated to sexualising real or non-real children

 

Child nudity

Content that depicts real or non-real child nudity where nudity is defined as:

 

• Close-ups of real or non-real children's genitalia

• Real or non-real nude toddlers, showing:

  • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing

  • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks

• Real or non-real nude minors, showing:

  • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)

  • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks

  • Uncovered female nipples

  • No clothes from neck to knee – even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing

• Unless the non-real imagery is for health purposes or is a non-sexual depiction of child nudity in real-word art

 

Non-sexual child abuse

Videos or photos that depict real or non-real non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent, unless the imagery is from real-world art, cartoons, films or video games

 

Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse

 

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In addition to removing accounts that violate our Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (CSAE) policies, our reviewers and automated systems consider a broad spectrum of signals to help prevent potentially unwanted or unsafe interactions.

 

• We may restrict access to features (e.g. the ability to follow certain accounts) for adults based on their interactions with other accounts, searches for or interactions with violating content, or membership in communities (e.g. groups) that we have removed for violating our policies.

• We may remove content that identifies alleged victims of child sexual exploitation through means other than name or image, if content includes information that is likely to lead to the identification of the individual.

 

We may remove content created for the purpose of identifying a private minor if there is a risk to the minor's safety, when requested by law enforcement, government, trusted partner or the content is self-reported by the minor or the minor's parent/legal guardian.

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Child Safety Point of Contact : Moneisha Gandhi

Contact details : admin@buddyup.network

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