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Illegal and Regulated Behaviors

February 2025

You may not use our service for any unlawful purpose or in furtherance of illegal behaviors.

In order to keep our users safe both on and off the platform, we have rules that govern a dynamic range of transactions and behaviors. When our rules do not apply to a situation, we may rely on legal or law enforcement requests in order to comply with local rules and regulations.

We have rules regarding the following types of illegal and regulated behavior, in addition to the broader X rules:

Human Exploitation: Human exploitation refers to an act of taking advantage of individuals for personal gain, often through coercion, deception, or abuse of power. You may not attempt to smuggle, sell, or facilitate the selling or trafficking of other human beings or body parts (including your own), for sexual, labor, or other illegal purposes. This includes seeking trafficked individuals for hire or purchase.

Not allowed

  • Sex trafficking;
  • labor trafficking;
  • human smuggling; and
  • organ trafficking, including demanding or attempting to sell/smuggle/facilitate a transaction of one’s own body parts.

Sexual Services: Sexual services include attempting or seeking in-person sexual services. Services involve financial transaction, physical meetup, and may be offered using encrypted communication.

You may not seek, provide, or act as a “middleman” for offline sexual services.

Not allowed

  • Prostitution;
  • escort services;
  • sexual/adult massage;
  • other sexual services where human trafficking is not apparent; and
  • sugar relationships.

Drugs: Our drugs policy covers illegal drugs, non-prescription drugs and precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs. 

You may not attempt to purchase, manufacture, smuggle, sell, or facilitate the sale or trafficking of drugs.

Not allowed

  • Attempting to sell, purchase or distribute drugs and substances; and
  • encouraging the use of certain drugs (including by providing consumption instructions), where required by local laws.

Weapons: You may not attempt to purchase, smuggle, sell, or facilitate the selling or trafficking of weapons. 

Not allowed

  • Sharing step-by-step instructions for creating a lethal weapon; and
  • the purchase, sale or trade of firearms, incendiary devices, ammunition and lethality enhancing firearm accessories between private individuals is not allowed.

Endangered Species: You may not attempt to purchase, smuggle, sell, or facilitate the selling of endangered species and/or products made out of endangered species. 

Not allowed

  • Attempting to sell or distribute illegal or regulated goods from endangered species products; and
  • seeking to purchase endangered species.

Facilitating Illegal Activities: You generally may not facilitate illegal activity. 

Not allowed

  • Facilitating stealing or illicitly obtaining proprietary materials or services;
  • facilitating access to age-restricted goods and services to minors where required by local laws; and
  • sharing or seeking step-by-step instructions for theft of other people’s property.

How we Enforce

The consequences for violating this policy depend on the severity of the violation as well as any previous history of violations. The following is a list of potential enforcement options for content that violates this policy:

  • Requiring post removal. For example, we may ask someone to remove the violating content and serve a period of time in read-only mode before they can post again. Subsequent violations may lead to account suspension.

How to Report 

Anyone can report violations of this policy via our Illegal and Regulated report form. In some cases, we may ask for additional information, or ask you to contact a law enforcement agency and have them contact us via our law enforcement request page to ensure we have enough context to enforce this policy.

 

Appeals

If you believe we made a mistake, you can submit an appeal.