Community Guidelines
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YouTube's Community Guidelines
When you use YouTube, you join a community of people from all over the world. The guidelines below help keep YouTube fun and enjoyable for everyone.
- Users are asked to report content they think breaks the guidelines Content & IP Rights
If you see content that you think violates these guidelines, report it.
- Users are asked to report content they think breaks the guidelines Content & IP Rights
Sometimes, content that would otherwise violate our Community Guidelines may stay on YouTube when it has Educational, Documentary, Scientific, or Artistic (EDSA) context, including content that is in the public’s interest. In these cases, the content gets an EDSA exception.
- Content with educational, documentary, scientific or artistic context may stay up even if it otherwise breaks the rules Content & IP Rights
These policies apply to all types of content on our platform, including, for example, unlisted and private content, comments, links, posts, and thumbnails. This list isn’t complete.
- The guidelines cover every kind of content, including unlisted and private videos, comments, links, posts and thumbnails Content & IP Rights
Creating with Common Sense: YouTube Community Guidelines
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Spam & deceptive practices
The YouTube Community is one that's built on trust. Content that intends to scam, mislead, spam, or defraud other users isn't allowed on YouTube.
- Content meant to scam, mislead, spam or defraud other users is not allowed Content & IP Rights
- Spam policy
- Content meant to scam, mislead, spam or defraud other users is not allowed Content & IP Rights
- Impersonation policy
- Content meant to scam, mislead, spam or defraud other users is not allowed Content & IP Rights
- External links policy
- Content meant to scam, mislead, spam or defraud other users is not allowed Content & IP Rights
- Fake engagement policy
- Content meant to scam, mislead, spam or defraud other users is not allowed Content & IP Rights
- Playlists policy
- Content meant to scam, mislead, spam or defraud other users is not allowed Content & IP Rights
- Additional policies
- Content meant to scam, mislead, spam or defraud other users is not allowed Content & IP Rights
Sensitive content
We hope to protect viewers, creators, and especially minors. That's why we've got rules around keeping children safe, sex & nudity, and self harm. Learn what's allowed on YouTube and what to do if you see content that doesn't follow these policies.
- Rules on child safety, nudity and sexual content, self-harm, thumbnails and vulgar language are set by linked policies Content & IP Rights
- Nudity & sexual content policies
- Thumbnails policy
- Child safety policy
- Suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders policy
- Vulgar language policy
Violent or dangerous content
Hate speech, predatory behavior, graphic violence, malicious attacks, and content that promotes harmful or dangerous behavior isn't allowed on YouTube.
- Hate speech, predatory behavior, graphic violence, malicious attacks and harmful or dangerous content are not allowed Content & IP Rights
- Harmful or dangerous content policies
- Violent or graphic content policies
- Violent criminal organizations policy
- Hate speech policy
- Harassment & cyberbullying policies
Regulated goods
Certain goods can't be sold on YouTube. Find out what's allowed and what isn't.
- Certain goods can't be sold on YouTube, including under the firearms and regulated-goods policies Content & IP Rights
- Sale of illegal or regulated goods or services policies
- Firearms policy
Misinformation
Certain types of misleading or deceptive content with serious risk of egregious harm are not allowed on YouTube. This includes certain types of misinformation that can cause real-world harm, like promoting harmful remedies or treatments, certain types of technically manipulated content, or content interfering with democratic processes.
- Certain misleading content with serious risk of egregious harm is not allowed, such as harmful remedies Content & IP Rights
- Misinformation policies
- Elections misinformation policies
- Medical misinformation policies
Educational, Documentary, Scientific, and Artistic (EDSA) content
Our Community Guidelines aim to make YouTube a safer community. Sometimes, content that would otherwise violate our Community Guidelines may stay on YouTube when it has Educational, Documentary, Scientific, or Artistic (EDSA) context. We may also make exceptions for content that is in the public’s interest, such as congressional or parliamentary proceedings, campaign speeches, or debates over ongoing government actions. In these cases, the content gets an EDSA exception. This is not a pass to violate our Community Guidelines.
- Content with educational, documentary, scientific or artistic context may stay up even if it otherwise breaks the rules Content & IP Rights
- How YouTube evaluates Educational, Documentary, Scientific, and Artistic (EDSA) content
Get creator tips for YouTube policies and guidelines.
Please take these rules seriously. If a YouTube creator’s on- and/or off-platform behavior harms our users, community, employees or ecosystem, we may respond based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the egregiousness of their actions and whether a pattern of harmful behavior exists. Our response will range from suspending a creator’s privileges to account termination.
- YouTube may act against a creator for on- or off-platform behavior, up to account termination Account & Service Control