Dailymotion strictly prohibits any gruesome, sadistic, threatening, or violent content intended to shock or provoke disgust. We also prohibit any content that is dangerous and/or intended to encourage, normalise or glorify violence, suffering, serious injury or death.
These rules apply to all forms of content available on Dailymotion, including videos and/or livestreams, descriptions or titles of videos, thumbnails, keywords, playlists, channels, and usernames.
What kind of content infringes these rules?
In particular, our users are prohibited from uploading any content:
- Depicting hard pranks, hoaxes, dangerous or threatening challenges (e.g. choking challenges...)
- Encouraging, promoting or glorifying suicide, self-harm and/or eating disorders;
- Abusing, stalking, harassing and/or threatening to reveal the personal data or identifying information of a person, including their home address, private email address or telephone number, bank statement, social security number and/or passport number (doxxing);
- Blackmailing or hacking the account of others;
- Using excessive vulgar language (insults, slurs);
- Constituting cyberbullying against an individual or “harassment in a pack” (these are publications made by several distinct authors of violent remarks against the same individual);
- Proposing the sale, purchase or trade of products or services prohibited for sale or violating applicable regulations (firearms, explosives, drugs etc.);
- Violating the applicable regulations to games of chance and gambling;
- Depicting, encouraging, supporting or promoting cruelty or torture against animals;
- Including scenes of torture/animal suffering (gore or not) without cultural, historical or educational context;
- Excessively explicit or gruesome related to death, violence or serious physical harm (torture, combat, slaughtering, dismemberment, mutilation, human remains);
- Promoting or providing instructions on the expansion of criminal activities or encouraging serious violence against individuals, animals or property;
This list is non-exhaustive.
Any content that is not included in this category and which may be harmful for children and/or sensitive audiences can be restricted.
How do I report malicious, shocking, dangerous or violent content?
We invite our users to report such content on Dailymotion via the "report" button next to each video, by selecting the category “Malicious, shocking, dangerous or violent" on our reporting form.
These reports allow us to identify content that may infringe our Prohibited Content Policy. Content that violates this policy will be removed from our platform.
You can find out more about our reporting process on our dedicated article.
How do we process your report?
Each report received by Dailymotion is processed by our moderation team in charge of evaluating, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, if the reported content is illicit and/or contrary to our Prohibited Content Policy which is an integral part of our Terms of Use.
To learn more, please read our dedicated article here.