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TOS changes

posted by Polsaker on announcements

After reviewing some of the terms of service laid out by our hosting provider (Vultr), some changes have been made to our TOS. The reason for this is because our previous TOS did not specify certain conditions that have to be met within our hosting provider's TOS. If Phuks breaks their agreement, they could take the site down, so there is really nothing we can do other than update our TOS.

Changes

Gambling is prohibited.

Basically, any form of betting where money is being exchanged is a no-go. Do it off site. Gambling would be ok, but if Vultr says it isn't, then it isn't.

Using Phuks as a place to discuss, plan or engage in any action that would compromise security, tamper with system resources or accounts on computers at Phuks, or any other site, is strictly prohibited.

Don't use Phuks as a place to hack stuff or discuss hacking stuff. Use our IRC to do that instead.

All images, videos or depictions of any kind that show sexually explicit or suggestive content involving children (whether virtual or real) is strictly prohibited. Additionally, content or communications seeking to solicit, lure or entice minors into sexual activity or lewd behavior is also strictly prohibited.

Loli porn is now banned. That was not specified before. Also, don't use Phuks to Phuk kids, we somehow forgot to mention that.

Optional email addresses provided to Phuks upon account creation will be used for account registration, and will not be shared with any other party.

We have to mention this, under the terms of our hosting provider, but it should have been in the TOS anyway.

Posting content of any kind that incites discrimination, hate or violence towards one person or a group of people because of their belonging to a race, religion or nation is strictly prohibited.

Yep. Vultr has a ban on hate speech. So we need one too, otherwise Phuks can be taken down. As a result, content that clearly has no purpose other than to breed hatred towards one or more persons due to their race, religion or nation will need to be removed. /s/Niggers comes under this umbrella, and must therefore be banned, under the terms of our hosting provider.

After reviewing some of the terms of service laid out by our hosting provider (Vultr), some changes have been made to our TOS. The reason for this is because our previous TOS did not specify certain conditions that have to be met within our hosting provider's TOS. If Phuks breaks their agreement, they could take the site down, so there is really nothing we can do other than update our TOS. ###Changes > Gambling is prohibited. Basically, any form of betting where money is being exchanged is a no-go. Do it off site. Gambling would be ok, but if Vultr says it isn't, then it isn't. > Using Phuks as a place to discuss, plan or engage in any action that would compromise security, tamper with system resources or accounts on computers at Phuks, or any other site, is strictly prohibited. Don't use Phuks as a place to hack stuff or discuss hacking stuff. [Use our IRC to do that instead.](https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.goat.chat#throat) > All images, videos or depictions of any kind that show sexually explicit or suggestive content involving children (whether virtual or real) is strictly prohibited. Additionally, content or communications seeking to solicit, lure or entice minors into sexual activity or lewd behavior is also strictly prohibited. Loli porn is now banned. That was not specified before. Also, don't use Phuks to Phuk kids, we somehow forgot to mention that. > Optional email addresses provided to Phuks upon account creation will be used for account registration, and will not be shared with any other party. We have to mention this, under the terms of our hosting provider, but it should have been in the TOS anyway. > Posting content of any kind that incites discrimination, hate or violence towards one person or a group of people because of their belonging to a race, religion or nation is strictly prohibited. Yep. Vultr has a ban on hate speech. So we need one too, otherwise Phuks can be taken down. As a result, content that clearly has no purpose other than to breed hatred towards one or more persons due to their race, religion or nation will need to be removed. /s/Niggers comes under this umbrella, and must therefore be banned, under the terms of our hosting provider.

58 comments

[–] SilverBanana 5 points (+5|-0)

My enthusiasm for the site plummeted drastically. With these rules, how are we better than Reddit?

We need to find different provider ASAP.

[–] PMYA 3 points (+3|-0)

It is not ideal, but at least we have transparency about the content that we can't currently allow. We won't be removing things indiscriminately like Reddit, and mods that are removing content from defaults without a real reason will be removed.

I'm not a fan of restricting content on the site either. This may actually have an unintended effect on the site though. In the next few weeks/months, we will be bringing traffic form Reddit. When Voat did this, they attracted an initial mix of users due to the high amount of publicity, but after that they only attracted users from the subs that had been banned on Reddit [coontown, FPH, jailbait subs etc.]. Whether or not you like that content, there is no debate at all when it comes to what happened to the actual good quality content on Voat. There was a massive drop off when all of those users went to the site.

So we might actually just end up attracting better content contributors due to our current hosting restrictions.