Runway prohibits any content involving child sexual abuse, automatically reports it to NCMEC and global law enforcement, and permanently bans all accounts associated with such content.
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This provision operationalizes Runway's compliance with legal reporting obligations regarding CSAM and establishes the enforcement mechanism—indefinite account suspension—as the consequence for policy violation in this category.
Any account associated with CSAM content will be indefinitely suspended and reported to NCMEC and law enforcement; this is the only violation in the policy that specifies indefinite (rather than reviewable) suspension.
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"Content that depicts, facilitates, or promotes child sexual abuse or the sexualization of children. We report any child sexual abuse material (CSAM) that we become aware of to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which works with global law enforcement agencies around the world, and we indefinitely suspend all associated accounts.Excerpt from Runway's Usage Policy
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This provision operationalizes Runway's compliance with legal reporting obligations regarding CSAM and establishes the enforcement mechanism—indefinite account suspension—as the consequence for policy violation in this category.
Any account associated with CSAM content will be indefinitely suspended and reported to NCMEC and law enforcement; this is the only violation in the policy that specifies indefinite (rather than reviewable) suspension.
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