Removal at the source is the priority.
We don’t intend to rely on search delisting alone. Delisting can reduce visibility and provide meaningful relief, but the underlying content may remain accessible through direct links or other routes.
Our goal is to pursue removal from the websites and services making unauthorized content available, using the reporting channels appropriate to the material and the rights involved. Search delisting can support that work, and we will treat it as a separate outcome.
The surrounding page matters, too.
A video or image can disappear while its listing page, thumbnails, screenshots, or previews remain. Some pages also let visitors request that missing files be uploaded again.
Our intended scope includes the unauthorized files and their associated pages, listings, thumbnails, and previews wherever removal is possible. We aim to pursue removal of the whole offending page or listing, including pages that continue to invite reuploads after a file disappears.
We don’t intend to mark a listing as fully resolved simply because its download or playback link stops working. What remains accessible still deserves attention.
Human review. Persistent follow-up.
We’re developing an approach built around individual review, appropriate removal requests, verification, and follow-up when material remains. Our aim is to carry more of that work so people don’t have to keep revisiting content that may be difficult to see.
Respectful support is central to what we’re building. Lawful adult content, including explicit, fetish, or kink material, should not make someone less deserving of thoughtful, nonjudgmental help.
Clear outcomes, with the differences explained.
Our planned reporting will distinguish between these outcomes:
- File removal: the reported image or video is no longer accessible at the checked source.
- Page or listing removal: the associated offending page has been removed.
- Thumbnail or preview removal: the checked visual previews have been removed.
- Search delisting: a result has been removed from the relevant search engine, which does not establish removal from its source.
We intend to make clear what we checked, what changed, and what remains unresolved. Sending a request is a step in the process; it is not proof of removal.
Persistence, with realistic limits.
What can be removed depends on ownership, consent, the circumstances, and the response of the websites and providers involved. A whole page may not be removable in every case. We cannot guarantee removal of every copy or prevent all future reposting.
Our commitment as we develop DELEATUR is to make those limits clear while keeping the person—and the full scope of what remains—at the center of the work.