Policies, reporting, and enforcement
Your central resource to learn about YouTube's policies and reporting tools. To learn more about YouTube's guiding principles, read our Community Guidelines.
YouTube policies
- The importance of context
- Harassment and cyberbullying policy
- Hate speech policy
- Policy on impersonation
- Policies on content featuring firearms
- Child Safety on YouTube
- Nudity and sexual content policies
- Violent or graphic content policies
- Policies on harmful or dangerous Content
- Spam, deceptive practices & scams policies
- Fake Engagement Policy
- Creator influence on YouTube
- Additional policies
- Links in your Content
- Best Practices for Content with Children
- Sale of Illegal or Regulated Goods
- Violent Criminal Organizations
- Custom thumbnails policy
Reporting and enforcement
- Report inappropriate content
- Report a YouTube search prediction
- Other reporting options
- Your content & Restricted Mode
- Community Guidelines strike basics
- Appeal Community Guidelines actions
- Age-restricted content
- Age-restrict your own video
- Channel terminations
- Videos locked as private
- Limited features for certain videos
- Troubleshoot video takedowns
- View your Reporting History
- YouTube Trusted Flagger program
- Strikes FAQ