# Education and support

Education and support aims for the standard of a learning, research or support community, where difficult subjects have to be discussed openly. It allows qualifying content presented as history, reporting, teaching, fiction or support, limits one-off insults, and keeps actionable harm, graphic detail and sexual content blocked.

The rules every built-in policy shares are listed in [Built-in policies](/docs/guides/built-in-policies#what-every-built-in-policy-shares).

## Context

| Context                                                                   | Outcome                             |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| Wholly factual reporting, or support and prevention                       | Allow, unless a restriction applies |
| Wholly non-graphic discussion under Sexual, Violence or Criminal activity | Allow, unless a restriction applies |
| Wholly fictional Violence or Criminal activity                            | Allow, unless a restriction applies |
| Wholly historical content                                                 | Allow, unless a restriction applies |
| Wholly educational content                                                | Allow, unless a restriction applies |

## Sexual content

- **Sexual text**, including descriptions of nudity or sexual acts, is blocked outside the contexts above.
- **Explicit sexual language**, such as graphic sexual descriptions, is blocked even in reporting, support or a lesson.
- **Adult nudity and sexual activity in images or video** are blocked. Nudity is blocked unless it is non-erotic, even in reporting, discussion or support, and sexual activity is blocked outside the contexts above. Revealing clothing or suggestive content in the same image never excuses them.
- **Non-erotic nudity**, such as breastfeeding, health care, protest or fine art, is allowed.
- **Suggestive content**, such as flirtation, innuendo, romantic or sexual roleplay, or a sexual joke, is allowed.
- **Promotion of adult content** is blocked.
- **Offers or requests for sexual services or encounters** are blocked. Criminal activity allows them, but the Sexual restriction blocks them.

## Violence

- **Graphic violence** is blocked in every context.
- **Fictional, historical and educational violence** and reporting of violence are allowed.

## Harassment and hate

- **Insults** aimed at a person, or at a group that is not a protected identity group, are limited, and allowed in fiction, history, reporting, teaching or support.
- **Bullying, threats and sexual harassment** are blocked outside fiction, history, reporting, teaching or support, even when they are also teasing or aimed at a public figure.
- **Hate** is allowed in any of the contexts above, and when countered. There are no overriding Hate restrictions, so reported, educational or countered exclusion, dehumanization and threats are allowed when the context covers all of them.

## Criminal activity

- **Alcohol, tobacco/vaping and gambling** are allowed when these findings cover the content.
- **Child sexual abuse material**: a bare mention is allowed; an actual instance is blocked unless a context allowance covers it.

## Personal information and profanity

- **Someone’s own private details** are allowed.
- **Other people’s private details** are blocked, even in a report.
- **Profanity** is not moderated.

## Choose another policy if

- Your community also shares adult content for verified adults: use [General community](/docs/guides/built-in-policies/general-community).
- Your learners include children: use [Children’s platform](/docs/guides/built-in-policies/childrens-platform), or [Wholesome community](/docs/guides/built-in-policies/wholesome-community) for members from 13.