Adobe Transparency Center

Overarching Principles
Policies: Harmful Content
Policies: Content Rights
Policies: Authenticity

Harmful Content: Hate

Policy goal

This policy seeks to address content that attacks or targets individuals or groups with derogatory or discriminatory language or imagery based on protected characteristics.

What is in violation

Hateful content is not permitted on Adobe’s platforms. This includes posting, publishing, or sharing of content that promotes hate. Examples of content that can lead to an account restriction include:

 

  • Violent or derogatory speech against an individual or group based on any of the characteristics outlined under hateful content (below)

  • Content attacking a person or group with slurs

  • Denial of an individual’s gender identity or sexual orientation

  • Hate-based conspiracy theories (for example, Holocaust denial)

 

When we learn of content that violates this policy (primarily through user reports), we investigate and may remove it or take action on the account responsible for posting such content (depending on the severity).

 

Policy definitions

Hateful content 

Content that directly attacks or dehumanizes a person, people, or groups of people based on any of the following categories:  

 

  • Race 

  • Ethnicity 

  • Nationality 

  • Religion 

  • Immigration/migrant status 

  • Caste affiliation

  • Gender 

  • Gender identity 

  • Sexuality 

  • Age 

  • Mental, medical, or physical condition/disability 

 

The targeting of this type of content applies to individuals or groups of individuals. It does not apply to institutions (nations, governments, and so on). 

Attack 

Inciting, encouraging, glorifying, or promoting prejudicial, discriminatory, or violent actions

Dehumanize

Depiction that portrays a person or group of people as less than human