Community Guidelines

Last updated: October 1, 2026
Effective date: October 1, 2026
Legal review status: Pending external counsel review

These Community Guidelines explain what is and is not allowed on Buzzio’s shared and bot-enabled surfaces. They supplement our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. If these Guidelines conflict with applicable law, the law controls.

Live copy: https://buzzio.dev/community-guidelines

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1. Scope and purpose

These Guidelines apply to:

Buzzio is for lawful communication, collaboration, publishing, community building, support, and useful automation. You may debate difficult subjects, share opinions, organize lawful activities, and build services, provided you do not use Buzzio to facilitate harm or violate these Guidelines, our Terms, or applicable law.

Social Groups, Communities, Broadcast Channels, and bot chats are not end-to-end encrypted. Traffic uses TLS in transit. Content is stored so those products can work — Buzzio can read retained content on these surfaces when investigating a report or otherwise acting lawfully. This does not mean we monitor every space or all private conversations.

We do not proactively read end-to-end encrypted private chats, Whisper private sessions, E2E group message bodies, or private call media. Whisper private chat has its own privacy notice: WHISPER_PRIVACY.md.

Privacy is not a license for crime. Using Whisper, sealed chat, or any Buzzio privacy feature to commit, plan, or conceal illegal activity is banned under the Terms §17 — even when Buzzio cannot read the message bodies.

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2. Responsibilities

Everyone is responsible for what they create, post, send, promote, or enable.

• Owners and creators must set lawful rules, choose trusted administrators, respond to credible reports, and remove prohibited content or participants promptly.
• Admins, superadmins, and moderators must apply rules consistently, use permissions responsibly, protect members, and not knowingly allow prohibited activity.
• Social Group owners/admins are responsible for membership, invites, media-pool content, voice-room use, and worker bots they install.
• Broadcast Channel admins are responsible for every post they publish and for how they operate the channel (including public discovery).
• Community owners/admins are responsible for channels, roles, and moderation across the community.
• Bot developers are responsible for their bot’s replies, webhooks, integrations, external links, and data practices. They must secure their systems and comply with the Bot Terms.
• Worker-bot installers and developers share responsibility for what the bot posts in a Social Group or Community.
• Members and users must follow these Guidelines and report serious violations rather than encouraging, redistributing, or concealing them.

Owning or administering a space does not require perfect prevention, but ignoring known abuse, encouraging violations, or repeatedly failing to moderate may lead to action against the space and responsible accounts.

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3. Social Groups (open-history groups) — surface rules

Social Groups are shared-history rooms. Later joiners can see retained history. Buzzio can read message text and media that remain within retention.

3.1 What creators accept

By creating a Social Group you confirm that:

1. You will follow these Guidelines and the Terms.
2. You understand the room is not E2E — TLS in transit, plaintext at rest.
3. You are responsible for admins you appoint, invites you share, passwords/approval settings, and content that stays in the media pool.
4. History boosts / media-pool purchases do not buy an exception to these Guidelines.
5. Voice rooms (where available) are for lawful real-time conversation; the same prohibited-activity rules apply to speech and shared screens/audio as to text.

3.2 Social Group–specific prohibitions (in addition to §5)

Do not use Social Groups to:

• run a marketplace for illegal goods, drugs, weapons, or stolen data;
• host CSAM, grooming, or any exploitation of minors;
• coordinate scams, phishing kits, or credential harvesting against members or outsiders;
• dump dox, non-consensual intimate media, or swatting/target lists;
• install worker bots that spam, scrape members, or evade bans;
• use temporary Social Groups as a “burner archive” for prohibited content in the hope that short life cycles will avoid enforcement — we may still act on reports and retained copies.

3.3 Admin duties

Admins should:

• review join requests when approval mode is on;
• remove clearly prohibited posts and ban repeat abusers;
• secure invite links and rotate passwords after leaks;
• disable or remove abusive worker bots promptly.

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4. Broadcast Channels — surface rules

Broadcast Channels are publisher feeds, not free-for-all chats. Admins post; followers read, react, and use polls as allowed.

4.1 What channel admins accept

By creating or administering a Broadcast Channel you confirm that:

1. Every post you publish is your responsibility (and that of co-admins you appoint).
2. Public / discoverable channels may appear in search and discovery — do not use public discovery to amplify fraud, hate, or illegal offers.
3. Unpublic / non-discoverable status is not a license for prohibited content; private distribution of illegal material is still banned.
4. Posts are not E2E — TLS in transit, plaintext at rest, retained about 30 days on our servers unless product rules delete sooner.
5. Reaction and poll integrity data may be stored so the feature works — do not manipulate metrics with bots or fake accounts.

4.2 Broadcast-specific prohibitions (in addition to §5)

Do not use Broadcast Channels to:

• publish investment, giveaway, or “support” schemes that are deceptive or fraudulent;
• impersonate Buzzio, governments, brands, or individuals to mislead followers;
• distribute malware, phishing links, or credential stealer payloads;
• advertise illegal drugs, weapons, or CSAM;
• dox individuals or publish non-consensual intimate imagery;
• run coordinated inauthentic engagement (fake reactions/polls) to game discovery.

4.3 Follower expectations

Followers must not abuse reactions, reports, or share channel content in ways that facilitate harassment. Reporting fake “violations” to harass a lawful channel is itself a Guidelines violation.

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5. Prohibited activity and content

Do not use Buzzio to create, upload, request, sell, distribute, promote, coordinate, or meaningfully facilitate:

5.1 Illegal activity

Any activity, content, transaction, instruction, or service that is illegal where it occurs or where you operate, including attempts, solicitation, conspiracy, or assistance. Do not use Buzzio to evade lawful sanctions, court orders, or regulatory requirements.

5.2 Illegal drugs and controlled substances

The production, sale, purchase, delivery, or distribution of illegal drugs, unlawfully supplied prescription medicines, or controlled substances; or instructions designed to enable those transactions.

5.3 Child sexual abuse and exploitation

Child sexual abuse material (CSAM), sexualization or grooming of minors, sextortion, trafficking, solicitation, or any content that exploits or endangers a child. Never share such material, including to condemn it. Report it immediately through available reporting tools or to the appropriate authorities.

5.4 Terrorism, violent extremism, and credible threats

Praise, support, recruitment, fundraising, operational assistance, propaganda, or attack planning for terrorist or violent extremist organizations; credible threats of violence; incitement; or instructions intended to enable violent harm.

5.5 Hate, harassment, and abuse

Dehumanizing or hateful attacks against people based on protected characteristics; targeted harassment, stalking, intimidation, sustained unwanted sexual attention, or coordinated abuse. Criticism of ideas, institutions, conduct, or public policy is allowed when it does not become prohibited targeting or threats.

5.6 Sexual exploitation and non-consensual intimate content

Sexual exploitation, coercion, sextortion, trafficking, or sharing, threatening to share, or soliciting intimate imagery without the depicted person’s lawful consent. This includes altered or synthetic intimate content used to exploit, humiliate, or deceive.

5.7 Trafficking and dangerous goods

Human trafficking, forced labor, illegal weapons, explosives, stolen goods, counterfeit documents, or other unlawfully traded or inherently dangerous goods and services.

5.8 Scams, fraud, impersonation, and phishing

Deceptive schemes intended to steal money, accounts, credentials, personal information, or property; phishing; fraudulent investment or giveaway schemes; identity theft; or impersonating another person, organization, or Buzzio. Bots must not collect card numbers, UPI secrets, passwords, private keys, or recovery phrases in Buzzio chat.

5.9 Spam, malware, and manipulation

Unsolicited bulk messaging, repetitive promotions, malware, credential theft, malicious links, denial-of-service activity, artificial engagement, coordinated inauthentic behavior, or manipulation of reactions, polls, discovery, reports, or platform metrics.

5.10 Intellectual-property infringement

Content or activity that infringes copyright, trademark, patent, trade-secret, or other intellectual-property rights. Good-faith criticism, commentary, parody, quotation, and other lawful uses remain permitted. Copyright complaints may be sent to founder@buzzio.dev with the subject Copyright Complaint and the details required by our Terms.

5.11 Doxxing and privacy violations

Publishing, threatening to publish, or soliciting another person’s sensitive personal information without a lawful basis, especially when intended or likely to facilitate harassment, fraud, stalking, or physical harm.

5.12 Bot abuse, scraping, and restriction evasion

Bots, scripts, or integrations that scrape data without authorization, harvest users or content, overload the Service, bypass rate limits or permissions, evade suspensions or bans, rotate accounts to avoid enforcement, probe for unauthorized data, or otherwise defeat technical or safety restrictions.

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6. Contextual exceptions

Good-faith educational, documentary, medical, scientific, journalistic, counterspeech, public-interest, or harm-reduction discussion may be allowed when context is clear and the content does not facilitate, celebrate, solicit, or materially increase the risk of harm.

Context is not a blanket exception. Use warnings where appropriate, minimize graphic or identifying detail, protect victims and minors, and do not provide operational instructions, transaction links, recruitment materials, or personal data that would enable abuse. Buzzio may still limit distribution or remove content when necessary for safety or law.

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7. Reporting

Use Buzzio’s Report tools where available. Include the space or bot name, relevant message or post, date, reason, and any context that helps us assess the report. Reports from encrypted surfaces may include limited evidence submitted from the reporter’s device; Buzzio cannot independently read E2E message bodies.

For urgent danger, child exploitation, or an ongoing crime, contact local emergency services or the appropriate authority first. You may also email founder@buzzio.dev for safety reports, appeals, or copyright complaints. Do not submit CSAM by email or duplicate it as evidence.

We review reports in context, but we do not guarantee a specific result or response time. Knowingly false, abusive, or coordinated reports may themselves violate these Guidelines.

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8. Enforcement

Depending on severity, context, history, technical availability, and legal obligations, Buzzio may:

• remove content or disable access to it;
• warn users or restrict features, posting, discovery, invitations, or participation;
• temporarily suspend or permanently ban accounts;
• restrict, hide, freeze, suspend, remove, or permanently ban a Social Group (OHG), Community, or Broadcast Channel;
• reject, pause, disable, or delete a Bot;
• preserve evidence when legally required or reasonably necessary for a lawful investigation; and
• make reports to law enforcement or other authorities when required by law or appropriate to address serious harm.

Severe violations may result in an immediate permanent ban without prior warning. Examples include CSAM or child exploitation, credible threats or attack planning, terrorism support, human trafficking, illegal controlled-substance trafficking, and serious fraud or malware operations. Repeated violations, coordinated abuse, ban evasion, or attempts to conceal prohibited conduct may also result in permanent account and space-level bans.

Enforcement may affect owners, admins, moderators, members, worker-bot installers, and developers who commit, direct, knowingly enable, or repeatedly fail to address violations. We may act on reports, retained shared-surface content, public discovery, lawful notices, or other lawful evidence. We do not promise to detect every violation.

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9. Appeals

If your account, space, channel, or bot is suspended, removed, or permanently banned, you may request reconsideration by emailing founder@buzzio.dev. Identify the affected account or space, the decision, and why you believe it was mistaken or what you have corrected.

Where practicable, a reviewer will consider the available evidence, context, proportionality, prior violations, and any new information. We may uphold, modify, or reverse a decision. Appeals must be made in good faith; repeated duplicate or abusive appeals may be closed. Any appeal rights required by applicable law remain available.

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10. Applicable law and updates

You are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to you, your content, your audience, and any goods, services, or bot integrations you offer. These Guidelines do not provide legal advice or replace stricter legal obligations.

We may update these Guidelines as products, risks, or laws change. The Last updated date will show the latest revision. Material changes may also be announced in-app or through official Buzzio channels where appropriate.

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11. Contact

Safety reports and appeals: founder@buzzio.dev
Copyright complaints: founder@buzzio.dev, subject Copyright Complaint
Website: https://buzzio.dev
Whisper private chat privacy: WHISPER_PRIVACY.md · https://buzzio.dev/privacy