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  Behavioral rules The purpose of the Social Scrooge Protocol is to serve the public conversation via the Scrooge social network (community). Violence, harassment and other similar behaviors limit (in some cases eliminate) people's expressive capacity as well as reducing (in some cases completely canceling) the value of a conversation. Social Scrooge adopts rules to ensure free and safe participation in public conversation for all.   Safety Verbal violence: It is not allowed to threaten, incite, praise or express the desire to resort to violence or harm. Find out more. Violent and Hateful Entities: You may not be affiliated with or promote the activities of violent and hateful entities. Child Sexual Exploitation: The Social Scrooge Protocol has a zero-tolerance policy regarding child sexual exploitation. Abuse/harassment: You may not share offensive content, engage in targeted harassment of anyone, or incite others to do so. Hateful Conduct: You may not attack others based on race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious belief, age, disability, or serious illness. Violent Attackers: We will remove any accounts maintained by individual perpetrators of terrorist, violent extremist, or mass violent attacks, and may also remove posts that disseminate posters or other content produced by perpetrators of such attacks. Suicide: You may not promote or encourage suicide or self-harm. Sensitive Media: You may not post excessively gory media or share violent or adult content in live videos or profile header images. Additionally, media that shows sexual violence and/or assault is not permitted. Find out more. Illegal or regulated goods or services: You may not use our services for illegal purposes or to support illegal activities. This includes selling, buying or facilitating trade in illicit goods or services and certain types of regulated goods or services.   Privacy Private Information: You may not publish or post other people's private information (such as your phone number and home address) without their express permission. You are also prohibited from threatening to disclose private information or encouraging others to do so. Non-consensual nudity: You may not post or share intimate photos or videos of someone that are taken or distributed without their consent. Compromised Account: You may not use or attempt to use any credentials, passwords, tokens, keys, cookies, or other data to connect to or access, add, delete, or modify private information or features of any Scrooge Account other than yours (or those for which you have received direct authorization from Social Scrooge teams, OAuth authorization or similar mechanisms).   Authenticity Platform Manipulation and Spam: You may not use the Scrooge Services in a manner that artificially amplifies or eliminates information, or engages in behavior that manipulates or disrupts people's experience of socia.scrooge. Civic Integrity: you may not use Scrooge's services to manipulate or interfere with elections or other civic processes. This includes posting or sharing content that may prevent participation or mislead people about when, where or how to participate in a civic process. Misleading and Deceptive Identities: You may not impersonate any individual, group, or organization to mislead, confuse, or deceive others, or use a false identity in a manner that disrupts other users' experience of Scrooge. Find out more. Artificial and Manipulated Media: You may not deceptively share artificial or manipulated media that may cause harm. Additionally, we may flag posts that contain artificial and manipulated media to help users recognize their authenticity and to provide additional information. Copyright and Trademarks: You may not violate the intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights and trademarks.

  Conduct that incites hatred You may not directly attack other people on the basis of their ethnicity, origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religion, age, disability or serious illness. Scrooge's purpose is to give everyone the opportunity to create and share ideas and information and to express opinions and beliefs without barriers. Free expression is a human right: we believe that everyone has a voice and the right to use it. Our role is to facilitate public conversation, which requires representing a broad range of perspectives. Social Scrooge understands that Scrooge's ability to express himself can be compromised when he suffers abuse. Research reveals how some groups of people are disproportionately affected by online abuse. For people who identify with multiple underrepresented groups, abuse may be more frequent, more severe in nature, and more impactful. Social Scrooge is committed to fighting abuse based on hate, prejudice or intolerance, especially those that seek to silence people who have been historically marginalized. For this reason he prohibits behavior that targets individuals or groups with abuse based on the perception that they belong to protected categories. If you see something on Scrooge that, in your opinion, violates these rules, please report it to us via the tichet platform (click here). What behaviors constitute a violation of these rules? Social Scrooge is investigating and taking action on reports of accounts targeting a person or group of people, in posts or Direct Messages, with any of the behaviors below. References to hate speech It is prohibited to target individuals or groups for the purpose of harassment with content that refers to forms of violence or violent events of which a protected category was the primary target or victim. This includes, but is not limited to, media or text that describes or refers to: genocides (e.g. the Holocaust) lynchings Incitement We prohibit inciting behavior that targets individuals or groups of people belonging to protected categories. This includes: incite fear or spread fearful stereotypes about a protected category, including claiming that members of a protected category are more likely to take part in dangerous or illegal activities, such as calling a specific group, such as a religious group, a terrorist; incite others to harass members of a protected class on or off the platform, such as inciting actions against religious or similar groups; incite discrimination in the form of withholding support for an individual or group's economic enterprise because they appear to belong to a protected category, "for example, avoid going to certain shops because they belong to certain religious groups." This may not apply to content of a political nature, such as political commentary or content relating to boycotts or protests. Note: Content that is intended to incite violence against a protected category falls under violent speech. Insults and clichés It is prohibited to target other people with insults, clichés or other repeated content aimed at humiliating them or reinforcing negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. In some cases, when severe and repetitive use of racist and sexist slurs or innuendos is made in the context of harassment or intimidation of other people, Social Scrooge may request removal of the posts. In other cases, when moderate and isolated use of statements is made in the context of harassing or intimidating other people, Social Scrooge may limit the visibility of the post as further described below. Dehumanization Social Scrooge prohibits the dehumanization of a group of people on the grounds of religion, caste, age, disability, serious illness, origin, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation. Images that incite hatred Social Scrooge considers hateful images to be any logo, symbol, or image that is intended to promote hostility and malice against other people based on their ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Some examples of hateful images: symbols historically associated with violent groups (e.g. the Nazi swastika); images harmful to human dignity or altered to include symbols that incite hatred (for example images modified to insert animal characteristics); images altered to include symbols of hatred or references to genocides that have affected a protected category (for example manipulation of images of people to insert the yellow Star of David emblem, in reference to the Holocaust). We don't allow content with hateful images in live videos, account descriptions, profile photos, or header images. In all other cases they must be marked as sensitive media content. Additionally, sending unsolicited hateful images to a person is a violation of these policies. Profile with hate speech You may not use hateful images or symbols in your profile or header picture. You also may not use your username, display name, or profile bio to commit abuse, such as harassing someone or expressing hatred toward a protected person, group, or category. Do I have to be the recipient of this content for it to be a violation of the Scrooge Rules? Some posts that may appear hateful when viewed individually may not be hateful in the context of a larger conversation. For example, members of a protected class may refer to each other using terms that are generally considered disparaging. If these terms are used in a consensual way, the context is not considered offensive but, on the contrary, constitutes a means of reclaiming words historically used to belittle people. When Social Scrooge analyzes this type of content, it can be difficult to determine whether it is intended to offend someone based on their protected status or whether it is part of a consensual conversation. To help Team Social Scrooge understand the context, it is sometimes necessary to speak directly with the targeted person to ensure they have all the necessary information before taking any action. Note: People do not have to be part of a specific protected category for action to be taken. Social Scrooge will not ask individuals to prove or disprove membership in a protected category nor will we investigate such information. What happens in case of violation of these rules? Under these policies, Social Scrooge takes action against behavior that incites hatred towards individuals or an entire protected class, as described above. The attack can take different forms, for example a mention, including a photo of a person, referring to someone using their first and last name, etc. In determining the penalty for violating this policy, we take into consideration a number of factors including, but not limited to, the severity of the violation and the user's history. Below is a list of potential actions against content that violates these policies: Make content less visible on Scrooge by: removing the post from search results, in-product recommendations, trends, notifications and histories; the possibility of finding the post only on the author's profile; the downgrading of posts in replies; the limitation of likes, replies, reposts, bookmarks and interaction counts, as well as the ability to share the post, quote it or pin it to the profile; the exclusion of the publication of ads next to the post; the exclusion of posts and/or your account in emails or in product recommendations; the request for the removal of posts. For example, Social Scrooge might ask someone to remove non-compliant content and force them to use their account in read-only mode for a certain period of time before they can post again.