Terms of Use

The intent of autism.place is to create a multi-service online community for autistic people and allies with the principle of autism acceptance. As such, autism.place is designed based on autistic culture so that autistic users can feel at home and flourish. In order to meet this goal, we have established the following Terms of Use (ToU). Anyone using or accessing any autism.place website or service is agreeing to these Terms of Use.

"We", "us", "the website", and "the instance" refer to any site hosted by autism.place.

"Community" and "communities" refer to any sort of grouping of users based on a common interest within autism.place. This includes Lemmy communities and Matrix chat rooms.

Updates to Terms of Use

These ToU will be updated occasionally. It is the users responsibility to stay updated by checking them regularly.

Purpose of Autism.Place

Autism.place provides Fediverse instances that grant users media to share digital information with other users. As such, content that is shared on autism.place is not representative of or endorsed by autism.place.

Users are not allowed to use any autism.place website or service for illegal activities. Autism.place will place systematic measures to prevent the use of its services for illegal activities as best as possible. Users that become aware of any other users using any autism.place services for illegal activities are required to report the content to autism.place moderators or administrators.

User Access and Responsibilities

1. Users may access and use autism.place only if they agree to our entire ToU.
2. Users that have been banned from any autism.place site or service may never access or use our site unless provided with explicit approval by an autism.place administrator.
3. Users are responsible for their experience on autism.place websites and services.
4. Users must report any illegal content or posts/comments in autism.place that are being used for illegal activities. To submit a report, use the relevant service's report feature to alert moderators and/or administrators.

Rules for Users

All users must adhere to the following rules in order to access and use any autism.place sites or services. Violation of these rules may result in being banished from the site permanently.

1. Do not threaten or attack other users

• All users have the right to use autism.place free of fear of harassment or harm. User may not conduct any bullying, stalking, sealioning, doxxing, or threats of violence. Autism.place has the right to report any threats of violence to appropriate law enforcement agencies.

2. Do not discriminate against protected groups

• Autism.place will not tolerate any discrimination against groups and individuals of said groups based on the following:
  • Race/ethnicity
  • Age
  • Disability/ability
  • Religion
  • Sex/gender
  • Queer groups (LGBTQ+)
  • Nationality

3. Do not share content with the purpose of upsetting others

• Do not post or share content provocative, inflammatory, or offensive with the deliberate purpose of derailing discussions, sowing discord, or causing distress in others, otherwise know as trolling.

4. Do not share other user's private information

• Do not share the following information of another user without their explicit documented approval:
  • Names
  • Addresses/location
  • Social media accounts
  • Other information that could be used to deduce a user's identity

5. Do not conduct any activities that may interfere with the functioning of autism.place services

• Autism.place will not tolerate any attacks that may disrupt its normal functioning. Additionally, users may not use any autism.place services to share information on how to violate/bypass user bans, disrupt access to our services, or violate security measures.

6. Do not use autism.place services for illegal activities

• Autism.place will not tolerate the use of its services to conduct illegal activities. This not only includes violating actual laws, but also promoting, facilitating, or providing information on conducting illegal activities. Illegal content is not allowed on any autism.place websites or services.

7. Do not use our services to directly conduct piracy or copyright infringement

• Do not share links to any sites or files that violate copyrights. This includes magnet links and torrent files that violate copyright laws.

8. Follow the rules of individual communities as established by their moderators

• Autism.place will allow users to create individual communities. Moderators may establish enforceable rules within their communities as long as they do not violate ToU or instance-wide rules.

9. Do not share any pornographic, erotic, or violent material

• Any material the depicts pornography or erotic sexual acts, whether it includes visual nudity or not, is prohibited. This includes nudity, erotic stories, and audio portraying sexual acts. However, respectful questions and discussions regarding sexuality for educational and philosophical purposes are acceptable within appropriate communities as long as they are clearly identified and marked not safe for work (NSFW).
• Do not share video or audio of extreme violent acts or injuries, to include emotional reactions, abuse (human or animal), assault (violent or sexual), self-harm, gore, combat/war footage, dismemberment, charring, suicidal behaviors, and death.

10. Do not share or spread misinformation

• Autism.place will not tolerate the use of its services to spread information that is without any merit, verifiably incorrect/false, or based on pseudoscience.

11. Moderators are responsible for maintaining the ToU and community rules

• Users that decide to moderate communities are responsible for upholding the ToU and any rules that are established for their respective communities. Moderators are expected to respond to reports in a timely manner and to apply moderation actions fairly.

12. Do not spam

• Do not copy & paste the same material/content repeatedly throughout autism.place sites and services. Crossposting is okay within reason.

13. Post and comment in English

• To help with administration and moderation, the majority of any post or comment should be in English.

Autism.Place Rights

In order to provide services that meets our purpose, autism.place maintains the following rights:

1. We may modify the ToU as we see fit.

2. Modify services to help meet our purpose as we see fit.

3. We may remove content or users that violate our ToU. We may also ban users permanently for gross or repeated violations of the ToU.

4. Banishing communities for gross or repeated violations of the ToU.

Autism.Place Governing Laws

Autism.place is currently hosted on a server in Germany, so we are governed by German and European Union laws.