Policies/en/Terrorist-and-Violent-Extremist-Content

💡 In simple words: Sometimes police tell websites to remove dangerous posts that help bad people hurt others. This page explains how WikiDeal would handle that: what police need to say, how we check if they're right, and how fast we remove it.

🎯 In 20 seconds (scientific summary): We are heading towards frameworks where decentralized platforms implement terrorist-content removal procedures balancing law enforcement compliance with user rights. This hypothesis proposes that advance policy publication builds institutional trust before deployment, while emerging trends suggest hybrid approaches combining rapid takedown with internal legal review and appeal mechanisms remain essential governance tools.

This is a draft version. Source: adapted notably from the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki, https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Wikimedia_Foundation_Terrorist_and_Violent_Extremist_Content_Procedures_and_Guidelines (CC BY-SA 4.0), with changes. Status: proposal, to be adopted. See the detailed disclaimer.

Anticipation note: this policy is written in 2026, before any marketplace is live, and is published in advance (inspired by the Wikimedia Foundation) to build a climate of trust. It is intended to become relevant as the platform deploys, and this note is intended to be removed once the platform is widely deployed.

In simple words: if a police or judicial authority sends a legal order saying that some content on the platform promotes terrorism, this page proposes how the hosting foundation would react: which details the authority must provide, who would review the order, how fast the content would be removed, and what you can do if your content was removed.

Terrorist and violent extremist content procedures and guidelines

These procedures and guidelines describe how terrorist and violent extremist content ("Terrorist Content") on the WikiDeal Markets and Portals (collectively, "the Platform") would be addressed. These actions would be performed by designated staff of the Ynternet.org Foundation in response to receiving a notice, legal order or judgment ("Legal Order") from relevant law enforcement authorities ("LEA"). All Terrorist Content actions would be performed in accordance with the Terms of Use and pursuant to the applicable law.

Purpose and scope

These procedures aim at protecting the WikiDeal communities from illegal efforts to abuse the Platform, cause harm, recruit others to cause harm, and/or otherwise organize to promote terrorist activities in violation of the law.

Filing a terrorist content notice

The relevant LEA would file a request for a Terrorist Content notice of action with the designated team within the Foundation. For the request to be considered, the LEA would file the request as follows:

• Share the official copy of the Legal Order (in PDF format) via its official email address to info@wikideal.net;
• List the following details in the email:
  • Jurisdiction of the LEA;
  • Contact details of the officer sharing the Legal Order for further communication with the Foundation;
  • A succinct summary of the reasons for the Terrorist Content notice;
  • Specific details of the Terrorist Content, with the URL of the relevant Market or Portal page to be removed per the Legal Order;
  • Legal provisions under which the content has been determined as Terrorist Content by the LEA; and
  • Any other information deemed crucial in support of the request, including any other pertinent documentation.

What if the content I uploaded was removed under these procedures?

As part of the internal review process, the legal function of the Foundation would review all removals to confirm that they comply with the relevant applicable law. If your content continues to stay removed after the legal review, it is likely that the Foundation was legally obligated to do so. Please note that the Foundation may also be in the course of appealing the Legal Order, but prohibited from reinstating the content in question unless and until it has succeeded in its appeal. If you have questions about such removal or believe that there is new information that should be considered, contact info@wikideal.net. However, the Foundation may be limited by applicable law in disclosing the information about these requests.

Who would handle terrorist content notices?

If a Legal Order that qualifies as Terrorist Content under the applicable law is received, the content would be removed temporarily, pending a legal review. Once the content is removed, the takedown would be registered in the edit summary as a response to the Legal Order. Unless otherwise required by the Legal Order, the necessary steps would be taken to inform the contributor about the takedown.

Timeline for terrorist content notices of action

Each Terrorist Content notice would be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. Whenever possible, the aim would be to review Terrorist Content notices within one business day. In emergency cases where the Legal Order requires expedited removal, the review and the necessary action would take place as soon as possible.

See also

• Terms of Use
• Office actions policy (proposal, to be adopted)
• All policies