We work to ensure TikTok does not enable activities that violate laws or regulations. We prohibit the trade, sale, promotion, and use of certain regulated goods, as well as the depiction, promotion, or facilitation of criminal activities, including human exploitation. Content may be removed if it relates to activities or goods that are regulated or illegal in the majority of the region or world, even if the activities or goods in question are legal in the jurisdiction of posting.

Criminal activities
Criminal activities cover a wide spectrum of acts punishable by law, including theft, assault, human exploitation, counterfeiting, and other harmful behavior. To prevent such behavior from being normalized, imitated, or facilitated, we remove content that promotes or enables criminal activities.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share:

Content that depicts or promotes acts of physical harm, such as assault or kidnapping
Content that risks the safety of others, including swatting
Content that depicts or promotes human exploitation, including human smuggling, bonded labor, domestic servitude, sex trafficking, or prostitution
Content that depicts or promotes the poaching or illegal trade of wildlife
Content that offers the purchase, sale, trade, or solicitation of unlawfully acquired or counterfeit goods
Content that provides instructions on how to conduct criminal activities
Weapons
We do not allow the depiction, promotion, or trade of firearms, ammunition, firearm accessories, or explosive weapons. We also prohibit instructions on how to manufacture those weapons. Content as part of a museum's collection, carried by a police officer, in a military parade, or used in a safe and controlled environment such as a shooting range may be allowed.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share:

Content that displays firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition, or explosive weapons
Content that offers the purchase, sale, trade, or solicitation of firearms, accessories, ammunition, explosive weapons, or instructions on how to manufacture them
Drugs, controlled substances, alcohol, and tobacco
We do not allow the depiction, promotion, or trade of drugs or other controlled substances. The trade of tobacco and alcohol products is also prohibited on the platform.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share:

Content that depicts or promotes drugs, drug consumption, or encourages others to make, use, or trade drugs or other controlled substances
Content that offers the purchase, sale, trade, or solicitation of drugs or other controlled substances, alcohol or tobacco products (including vaping products)
Content that provides information on how to buy illegal or controlled substances
Content that depicts or promotes the making of illicit alcohol products
Content that depicts or promotes the misuse of legal substances, or instruction on how to make homemade substances, in an effort to become intoxicated