3. Reporting Illegal Images

Child Pornography and Bestiality

When working on rating projects in any task location or locale, you must follow United States federal law, which considers child pornography and bestiality to be illegal.

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Definition of Child Pornography

An image is child pornography if it is a visual depiction of someone who appears to be a minor (i.e., under 18 years old) engaged in sexually explicit conduct (e.g., vaginal or anal intercourse, oral sex, bestiality or masturbation as well as lascivious depictions of the genitals), or sadistic or masochistic abuse. The image of sexually explicit conduct can involve a real child; a computer- generated, morphed, composite or otherwise altered image that appears to be a child (think of images that have been altered using “Photoshop”); or an adult who appears to be a child; and the image can be nonphotographic (e.g., drawings, cartoons, anime, paintings or sculptures) so long as the subject is engaging in sexually explicit conduct that is obscene. If it is indistinguishable from child pornography, it is child pornography.

Even if the image has literary (think of the famous book “Lolita”), artistic, political (think of political cartoons), or scientific (think of images for a medical text book) value, please send the link to your vendor, as instructed below.

Depiction of the genitals does not require the genitals to be uncovered. Thus, for example, a video of underage teenage girls dancing erotically, with multiple close-up shots of their covered genitals, or images of children with opaque underwear that focus on the genitalia could be considered child pornography.

An image of a naked child (e.g., in the bathtub or at a nudist colony) is not considered child pornography as long as the child is not engaging in sexually explicit conduct, or the focus is not on the child’s genitalia. Visual depictions of adults who look like children (e.g., a 35- year-old man play-acting in diapers, or an obvious woman dressed as a school girl) are not child pornography. If you don't think it's a minor, it probably isn’t child pornography. However, if you cannot tell that the person in the image is over 18 (e.g., an under-developed 18-year-old whose body hair has been waxed), that is child pornography.

Definition of Bestiality

Bestiality or zoophilia is defined as human-animal sexual interaction.

Reporting Instructions

Please report illegal and offensive images as instructed by your vendor.

4. Foreign Language Flag

14.4.1 Using the Foreign Language Flag

Please assign a Foreign Language flag when the language on the landing page is not one of the following:

• The task language

• English

• A language which is commonly used by a significant percentage of the population in the task location

For example, most users in Ukraine speak Russian. Therefore, landing pages in the Russian language should not be assigned the Foreign Language flag for rating tasks in Ukrainian (UA).

Here is a screenshot of a result block that shows when the Foreign Language flag would be used.

	Query and User Intent	Result Block and LP, Flag, Needs Met Rating		Explanation
				This LP is the homepage
				of the Baidu website. The
	Query: [baidu]			result is the target page of
				the query, but is in a
	User Location:			foreign language
	Anchorage, Alaska			(Chinese).
	User Intent: Go to the			This result merits a
	Baidu website.			FullyM rating and the
				Foreign Language
				flag.

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Important:

• Please assign the Foreign Language flag even if you personally understand the language, but most users in your locale do not.

• Please remember to flag all foreign pages with the Foreign Language flag, even if the query “asks” for a foreign language page.

• Assign the Foreign Language flag based on the language of the landing page, not the appearance of the result block.

• Sometimes it is difficult to determine what language the landing page is in. The LP may have multiple languages or no words at all. In these cases, try to represent users in your locale. Does it feel like a foreign language page? You may look at MC, SC, Ads, and even the website the page is on. When in doubt, don’t use the Foreign Language flag.