Community Standards

1. Purpose and scope

Action-Party US is designed for vigorous civic discussion, organizing, and participation. These standards apply to posts, comments, profiles, messages, links, images, Events, Groups, Pages, invitations, and other activity on the Service. Feature-specific rules may add reasonable requirements but cannot authorize conduct prohibited here.

We consider context, severity, likelihood of harm, newsworthiness, public interest, intent, and patterns of conduct. Satire, counterspeech, documentation, education, and condemnation may be treated differently from endorsement or encouragement of harm.

2. Civic disagreement and expression

Members may criticize public officials, political parties, institutions, ideologies, policies, and one another. Strong disagreement, advocacy, parody, and ordinary profanity are not automatically violations. Address ideas and conduct without threatening, dehumanizing, stalking, or repeatedly targeting people in ways that create a credible risk of harm.

3. Violence, threats, and dangerous conduct

Do not threaten, praise, coordinate, instruct, solicit, or incite violence or serious physical harm. Do not publish credible statements of intent to harm, target information that materially enables an attack, celebrate recent real-world violence in a way that encourages repetition, or organize violent or criminal activity. Content may be restricted immediately and referred to appropriate authorities when we reasonably believe there is an imminent or legally reportable risk.

4. Hate, harassment, and abuse

Do not attack or dehumanize people based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, veteran status, caste, or another characteristic protected by applicable law. Prohibited conduct includes slurs used to attack, calls for exclusion or segregation, claims that a protected group is inherently subhuman or diseased, and praise for atrocities against a protected group.

Do not engage in targeted harassment, stalking, sexual harassment, coordinated pile-ons, repeated unwanted contact, threats against relatives or employers, or content intended to frighten or silence through credible intimidation. Criticism of a person’s public conduct is not automatically harassment.

5. Sexual exploitation and minors

Sexual exploitation, nonconsensual intimate imagery, sexual extortion, grooming, trafficking, and any sexual content involving a minor are prohibited. Do not solicit, possess, link to, describe for gratification, or facilitate child sexual abuse material. We may preserve evidence and report apparent child exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children or law enforcement as required or permitted by law.

6. Privacy and personal information

Do not expose or threaten to expose private information without lawful authority, including home addresses, private phone numbers, government identifiers, financial account details, credentials, private medical information, or a person’s real-time location. Do not publish information that creates a foreseeable risk of stalking, identity theft, coercion, or physical harm. Public records are not automatically appropriate to republish in every context.

7. Authenticity, fraud, spam, and platform integrity

Do not impersonate a person or organization, misrepresent account authority, operate coordinated inauthentic accounts, scam, phish, spread malware, manipulate reactions or reports, automate activity without written authorization, evade enforcement, buy or sell accounts, scrape protected information, or interfere with Service availability or security. Good-faith security research requires prior written authorization.

AI-generated or materially altered media must not be used deceptively. Disclose synthetic or altered content when a reasonable viewer could otherwise mistake it for an authentic record of a person or event.

8. Civic and election integrity

Do not misrepresent the Service as a government or election system. Do not knowingly publish materially false procedural information about when, where, or how to register or vote when it could interfere with participation; intimidate or deceive eligible voters; misrepresent official election results; or coordinate unlawful interference with voting or election administration. Debate about candidates, policies, election law, and reported results remains allowed.

Use authoritative government sources for registration, eligibility, deadlines, polling places, ballots, and official results. Activity on Action-Party US does not complete any government process.

9. Illegal activity and rights of others

Do not use the Service to facilitate unlawful conduct, sell prohibited goods, compromise systems, traffic stolen data, evade sanctions, or infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights. A claim about illegality or infringement may require sufficient information and good-faith review; disagreement alone does not establish a violation.

10. Accessible participation

Use clear descriptions for meaningful images, caption or summarize essential audio and video when practical, avoid flashing content that may cause harm, and do not intentionally obstruct assistive technology. Event, Group, and Page organizers should accurately describe known accessibility conditions and a contact method for accommodation questions.

11. Reports and enforcement

Members may report content or accounts through available controls. Reports are confidential but not anonymous to the Service. We may preserve a snapshot and related records for review. Depending on context and severity, we may warn, reduce distribution, quarantine, label, remove, restore, or lock content; limit features; remove roles; reject an application; or suspend or disable an account.

Automated checks may hold high-risk material for human review but do not make permanent-ban decisions by themselves. Moderators may not rewrite an author’s words and present them as the author’s. We may act immediately when needed to protect people or the Service.

12. Appeals and mistakes

When an appeal is available, identify the affected account or content and explain why the decision should be changed. A reviewer not responsible for the initial decision should evaluate significant appeals when staffing permits. We may restore content or access when a decision was mistaken, circumstances materially changed, or a proportionate restriction is available.

13. Emergencies

Action-Party US reporting tools are not emergency services and are not continuously monitored. If someone faces imminent danger, contact 911 or the appropriate local emergency service. Apparent child sexual exploitation may be reported to the NCMEC CyberTipline.

14. Changes and contact

An operative version will show an effective date and archived version. Material changes will receive reasonable notice where required. Questions and appeals may be sent to: