Harmful content

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Harmful content is the content that is inadequate for children. This may be images, documents, videos, anything that contains violence scenes / texts or scenes that are inadequate for children etc.

Harmful or dangerous materials for children are those that can harm them without being illegal by the laws in force.

According to international experiences, harmful content is classified as following:

  1. materials that involves nudity;
  2. materials that contains violence scenes (attacks, rapes, hurting human beings or animals, torture, murders, etc. )
  3. materials that use vulgar language (profanity, swearing, vulgarities, obscenities, etc.);
  4. potentially dangerous materials (describing and using cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, weapons, gambling);
  5. various materials that may contain bad examples for children, or induce feelings of fear or intimidation which can affect them psychologically;
  6. materials that incite or present discrimination or harming an individual or a group of individuals, on various reasons (age, sexual orientation, ethnic, religious or of nationality, etc.).

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