TalkSpar Content Policy

TalkSpar is a free speech environment. However, in order to ensure the safety of our users as well as the longevity of the platform, there are a few things you are not permitted to do with the TalkSpar platform.

By using talkspar.com, you agree to follow these rules. Violations (in TalkSpar's sole discretion) may lead to the suspension of your talkspar.com account.

1: Intellectual Property

You may not upload to, embed within, or link out from talkspar.com:

1. Copyrighted material that you are not authorized to distribute
2. Anything not legal to publish within, or export from, the United States of America

2: Digital Safety

You may not upload to, embed within, or link out from talkspar.com:

1. Digitally malicious content
2. URL shorteners
3. Anything that breaks TalkSpar

3: User Safety

You may not use talkspar.com to do any of the following:

1. Threaten, intimidate, or harrass other users
2. Impersonate TalkSpar staff
3. Solicit, collect, or publish private personal information, either yours or another individual's
4. Spam

Generally, we interpret harassment to be conduct that cannot be stopped using the site's built-in blocking features. Examples of such conduct include (but are not limited to) the use of multiple accounts to evade blocks, and the coordination of harassing activities across multiple users.

4: Sexual Content

You may not upload to, embed within, or link out from talkspar.com:

1. Sexual or sexually suggestive material not marked "NSFW"
2. Sexual or sexually suggestive material involving individuals under the age of 18, including fictitious content. Solicitation of such material is also prohibited.
3. Sexual or sexually suggestive material involving individuals who did not consent to its creation and distribution (commonly called "revenge pornography" or "involuntary pornography"). Solicitation of such material is also prohibited.

As a rule of thumb, if it features exposed genitalia outside of a strictly medical/educational context, it's probably adult content, and should be marked as such.

5: IRL Safety

You may not use talkspar.com to do any of the following:

1. Incite, plan, or execute unlawful or violent activity
2. Engage in fraud

6: Evil

While it would be nice to be able to entertain all viewpoints, certain ideologies are ontologically evil. We have a zero tolerance policy on advocacy, propaganda, recruitment, and any other forms of promotion of evil.

Evil ideologies prohibited from TalkSpar include, but are not limited to:

• Ethnic, racial, or sex-based supremecism
• Pedophile acceptance/normalization
• Terrorism

Discussion of these topics as they relate to current events or other subject matter is permitted; advocacy or promotion of them is not.

7: Developer Terms

7.1 API Clients

The following rules apply to third-party clients acting as in intermediary between TalkSpar and a human user ("API Clients"):

1. API clients must use a unique User-Agent header.
2. API clients must authenticate with an OAuth2 token. Username/password authentication is strictly prohibited.
3. API clients must operate on the principle of one human action to one API call. Bulk actions are not permitted.

7.2 Bots

In addition to the API Client rules above, the following rules also apply to third-party clients interacting with TalkSpar in an automated manner. These rules also apply to API clients that do not follow the one-action-one-call principle, i.e. clients that enable bulk actions. (Collectively, "Bots")

1. Bots may not vote.
2. Bots must use a unique User-Agent header.
3. Bots must authenticate with an OAuth2 token. Username/password authentication is strictly prohibited.
4. Bots must include a X-User-Type header with a value of Bot.