Content Guidelines

soj.ooO is committed to free expression. Our default is to host content even when it is controversial, offensive, or unpopular. However, a narrow set of content categories must be removed in order to comply with the law, protect users from concrete harm, and keep the Platform usable. This page is the closed list of grounds for removal. If content does not fall into one of the categories below, it stays.

See also the Free Speech Policy and the Terms of Service.

1. Prohibited Content

The following categories of content are not permitted on the Platform and may be removed without notice:

• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Any content depicting, soliciting, or promoting the sexual abuse or exploitation of minors. Reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as required by U.S. law.
• True threats and incitement to imminent violence: Content that constitutes a true threat against an identifiable person or group, or that incites imminent lawless action, as those terms are defined in U.S. law (Virginia v. Black; Brandenburg v. Ohio).
• Doxxing: Publishing another person's non-public personal information (such as home address, phone number, government ID, or financial account numbers) without consent and with apparent intent to facilitate harassment.
• Targeted harassment: A sustained pattern of unwanted contact directed at a specific person, including coordinated brigading. Disagreement, criticism, and one-off insults are not in this category.
• Non-consensual intimate imagery: Sexually explicit images or videos of a real person shared without that person's consent.
• Sexually explicit content: Pornography, nudity, and other sexually explicit images or video. The Platform is not an adult-content site and does not host this category of material regardless of consent or legality.
• Spam and commercial mass-posting: Repetitive, automated, or large-scale promotional content; vote manipulation; engagement farming with fake accounts.
• Malware, phishing, and fraud: Content distributing malicious software, attempting to steal credentials or payment information, or perpetrating financial fraud.
• Copyright and trademark infringement: Content that infringes the intellectual property rights of third parties, subject to the DMCA Policy.
• Impersonation: Pretending to be a specific other person, brand, or organization in a way that is likely to mislead. (Parody and pseudonymity are explicitly allowed when not designed to deceive.)
• Other content unlawful under U.S. law: Any content that is independently illegal under applicable United States federal or state law.

2. What Is Not on This List

The list above is exhaustive. We do not remove content for any of the following reasons:

• It is offensive, distasteful, vulgar, or in poor taste.
• It expresses an unpopular political, religious, or ideological viewpoint.
• It criticizes a public figure, institution, government, or company.
• It advances a heterodox or fringe theory.
• Other users find it disagreeable, hurtful, or upsetting.

3. Community-Level Moderation (Pochas)

Each pocha (community) on the Platform may set its own narrower rules within its space, enforced by community moderators. Community-level rules apply only inside that pocha and do not override the Platform-level Content Guidelines. A community moderator can remove a post from their own pocha for violating the community's rules; only Platform staff can remove content from the Platform entirely, and only on the grounds enumerated above.

4. Enforcement and Transparency

5. Cryptographic Integrity

Posts and comments are cryptographically signed by the author's browser. We cannot modify a signed post or comment without invalidating its signature, which becomes visible to every reader as a red badge on the post. Removal of content is therefore the only moderation action we can take. We cannot silently rewrite, censor inline, or otherwise alter what a user wrote. See the Free Speech Policy for details.

6. Updates

Material changes to this list will be announced on the Platform. Adding new removal grounds requires updating this page; we do not enforce unwritten rules.

7. Contact