What is harmful content? Well, it’s anything online which causes a person distress or harm.
Our focus is on providing advice about all types of harm online and signposting users to the correct services, highlighting to the public a reporting route for non-criminal content. Where the response from industry isn’t what was expected, we can follow this up directly.
Why Can We Help?Report Harmful Content is provided by the UK Safer Internet Centre and operated by SWGfL. We use our existing experience of running two successful helplines, The Professionals Online Safety Helpline and The Revenge Porn Helpline to enhance our service. There is no one else that delivers what we do.
In simple terms, harmful content is anything online which causes a person distress or harm. This encompasses a huge amount of content and can be very subjective depending on who is doing the viewing; what may be harmful to one person might not be considered an issue by someone else.
We studied the community guidelines of several different platforms and concluded that the following areas of content are likely to violate terms: