Dealing with Nudity, Pornography, and Child Pornography on Google+Google does not allow nudity, pornography, or child pornography on Google+. All three violate provisions of the
Google+ User Content and Conduct Policy (
http://www.google.com/+/policy/content.html).
* Rule #6 prohibits uploading and sharing content that exploits or abuses children. This includes all child sexual abuse imagery (even cartoon images) and all content that presents children in a sexual manner.
* Rule #9 prohibits sharing nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material; and driving traffic to commercial pornography sites.
It is safe to say that you will never see a firm definition published. When a case involving alleged pornography (Jacobellis v. Ohio) went before the US Supreme Court in 1964, Justice Potter Stewart wrote: "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it." The same really applies to sexually explicit content.
It should also be noted that the rule does not set limits about what constitutes nudity. It does not, for example, say that nudity is permitted providing specific body parts are not displayed.
What NOT to doDo not share links to the content that violates the policy! The policy does not make allowances for sharing content while attempting to stop it. That is stated explicitly in Rule #6 of the policy. That restriction is because distributing links -- even with the best of intent -- increases exposure to the content and can even be illegal.
How to report content violating these rulesYou are encouraged to report the content so that the Google+ Abuse Team can deal with the violators. It is best to report the specific posts that violate the rules rather than simply reporting the profiles or pages that shared them. That way you direct the Google+ Abuse Team to the specific problems. It is also best to report the posts using the Desktop interface because that allows you to give the Abuse Team specific information about the type of offense you are reporting.
1. Click the "V" that appears in the upper right-hand corner of the post you want to report.
2. Select
Report this post.
3. Click the
Something else button in the middle of the area where the post previously appeared. (You might have to scroll down to see that on large posts.)
3. Select
It's sexually explicit.
4. Select
pornography or nudity if the post does not involve child exploitation or
Content involving minors if children are involved.
How to prevent this type of content in your Home streamThe following post describes how unwanted content gets into your Home stream and actions to be taken to stop it from appearing in the future:
https://plus.google.com/+JohnSkeats/posts/JBwMWmwiad4 #GooglePlus #GooglePlusTips
