Acceptable Use Policy.

1. Scope

This policy applies to anything you do on the site, including comments, replies, link submissions, newsletter signups, contact forms, account behavior, and use of our APIs and search.

2. Do not

• Post content that is illegal where you live or where we operate.
• Post content that sexualizes minors. Zero tolerance. Confirmed CSAM is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and law enforcement.
• Harass, threaten, dox, or incite violence against any person or group.
• Post hateful content targeting protected characteristics.
• Promote dating, romance, or sex work activity that is illegal, exploitative, or involves trafficking.
• Spam: repeated unsolicited promotional posts, link drops, affiliate dumping, or coordinated inauthentic activity.
• Impersonate a person or organization, or misrepresent your affiliation.
• Post other people's private information without consent.
• Upload malware, run scripts against the site, or attempt to exploit security flaws. Coordinated disclosure is welcome: see Section 5.
• Do not scrape, crawl, mirror, or harvest the site, and do not use our content to train, fine-tune, ground, or evaluate any AI or machine-learning system without prior written permission from High Intent Media Inc. This prohibition covers automated agents, headless browsers, scrapers, LLM crawlers, retrieval pipelines, embeddings, dataset construction, and any derivative or substantially similar work product. Linking to our pages and short quoting with clear attribution and a working link back is fine and encouraged. Bulk extraction, republication, and silent ingestion are not. We reserve all rights under copyright, database rights, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the UK Computer Misuse Act, and equivalent laws, and we will pursue takedowns, injunctive relief, and damages where appropriate. Our robots.txt, ai.txt, and machine-readable signals form part of these terms; ignoring them is a violation regardless of whether you read this page.
• Create accounts in bulk, automate signups, or evade rate limits and anti-abuse measures.
• Interfere with other users, the comment system, or our editorial workflow.

3. Comments and the newsroom

We welcome critical, even pointed comments from people working in the industry. Disagreement is not abuse. Calling someone an idiot is. Aim higher than the worst version of online discourse.

• Use a real name or a consistent handle. We will remove obvious throwaway identities used to attack others.
• Disclose conflicts of interest when you have one.
• If you work at the company being discussed, say so.

4. Enforcement

We can remove content, edit comments for moderation, suspend or close accounts, block IP ranges, and refer matters to law enforcement when appropriate. We do not pre-screen every comment. Speed of moderation depends on the report and the volume.

Steps we typically take:

1. Warning and content removal for first borderline cases.
2. Account suspension for repeated or serious violations.
3. Permanent ban and IP blocking for severe or persistent abuse.
4. Reporting to authorities for illegal content.

5. Reporting

Report abuse or content that violates this policy to hello@highintentmedia.com. Include a link to the content and a brief description.

Report a suspected security vulnerability to the same address. Please do not test live user accounts and please give us a reasonable window to fix issues before public disclosure.

6. Appeals

If we removed your content or suspended your account and you believe we got it wrong, reply to the moderation email or write to hello@highintentmedia.com with the context. We will review and respond.