Terms of Use

Effective date: August 20, 2026
Operated by: 50501 Movement Network (“we,” “us,” the “Organization”)

These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of this site and all chapter and state subsites on this network (collectively, the “Network”). Part One applies to everyone who visits or interacts with the Network. Part Two applies additionally to Chapter Operators and anyone granted an account or content-access permissions on any Network site.

By accessing the Network, submitting a form, posting a comment, or operating a chapter site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Network.

Part One — Terms for all users

1. Who may use the Network

You must be at least 14 years old to browse the Network, at least 16 years old to submit any form (signup, event RSVP, or contact) or post a comment, and at least 18 years old to hold an account or act as a Chapter Operator (see Part Two). If you are under 18, you may attend events publicized on the Network only as permitted by law and with the consent of a parent or guardian. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16; if you believe we have, contact us through the contact form and we will delete it.

2. What the Network is

The Network publishes organizing content — events, campaigns, demands, guides, resources, live updates, press releases, and chapter directories — authored by the Organization and by its local chapters. Content on chapter subsites is created by that chapter and may be automatically republished on the national site with a source attribution badge. The Organization provides the hosting platform; individual chapters are responsible for the content they author (see Part Two).

3. Your content

The Network accepts a limited set of contributions from the public: comments on blog posts; form submissions (joining an organizing list, RSVPing to an event, or sending a contact message); and content you otherwise send us, such as a testimonial a chapter later publishes with your permission (“Your Content”).

License. You retain ownership of Your Content. By submitting it, you grant the Organization and its chapters a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, excerpt, and distribute Your Content on the Network (including republication of chapter content on the national site) for the purpose of operating and promoting the Network. This license ends when Your Content is deleted from the Network, except for copies retained in routine backups or as required by law. We will not sell Your Content or your contact information.

Your responsibilities. You represent that Your Content is yours to submit, is accurate to the best of your knowledge, and does not violate the acceptable-use rules below or any third party’s rights.

4. Acceptable use

You may not use the Network to:

• Post or transmit content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, threatening, or that incites or calls for violence against any person;
• Publish another person’s private information — home address, personal phone number, private email, financial or medical information — without their consent (“doxxing”). Publicly listed business contact information used for lawful advocacy is addressed in Section 6;
• Impersonate any person, chapter, or organization, or misrepresent your affiliation;
• Post spam, commercial solicitation, or content generated in bulk;
• Infringe any copyright, trademark, or other intellectual-property right;
• Attempt to probe, disrupt, or overload the Network, circumvent rate limits or the private-links password gate, scrape form endpoints, or access submission records, accounts, or admin screens you have not been granted;
• Plan or coordinate unlawful activity. The Network supports lawful assembly, speech, and advocacy.

5. Content moderation

• Moderation team. The Organization maintains a content moderation team that reviews new content published across the Network — including chapter-authored content, comments, and accountability entries — and is empowered to edit, unpublish, or remove content and to suspend accounts or chapters that violate these Terms.
• No pre-screening obligation. We do not and cannot review all content before it appears, and we are not responsible for content authored by chapters or users prior to moderation. Chapter content may appear on the national site automatically before the moderation team has reviewed it.
• Enforcement discretion. The moderation team may act on any content that violates these Terms, creates legal risk, or endangers any person, and may act without prior notice where the team judges the content to pose imminent harm (for example, doxxing or credible threats).
• Notice and appeal. Where practical, we will notify the responsible chapter or user when their content is removed and state the reason. You may appeal a moderation decision by writing to the contact form (subject “Legal / safety”) within 14 days; appeals are reviewed by a person not involved in the original decision.
• Reporting content. Anyone may report content that violates these Terms via the contact form (subject “Legal / safety”) or the moderation contact listed on the contact page. Reports are reviewed by the moderation team; you will not necessarily receive an individual response.

6. Accountability content

Parts of the Network publish accountability content that names real people and organizations, describes conduct the movement opposes, and provides publicly listed business contact information together with suggested call scripts. For this content:

• Entries are authored by chapters under the obligations in Part Two, Section 6, which require factual accuracy, documentation, and use of business (never personal) contact information;
• Statements of opinion are those of the authoring chapter;
• The suggested scripts are for lawful, civil advocacy only. You may not use any information published on the Network to harass, threaten, defraud, or invade the privacy of any person. Repeated unwanted contact, contact outside ordinary business channels, or any threatening communication violates these Terms and may violate law;
• If you are named on the Network and believe an entry about you is false or lists non-public personal information, contact us via the contact form (subject “Legal / safety”). Such reports are prioritized by the moderation team.

7. Privacy and communications

Our Privacy Policy describes what we collect and how we use it. In short: forms collect only what you enter (an email address and/or Signal username, and optionally your ZIP code, a role preference, your name, and a message); submissions are stored on the chapter site you submitted them to and are visible only to that site’s authorized organizers; event RSVPs may be forwarded to the organizing chapter’s private coordination channel; and we run no third-party analytics or advertising trackers. To have your submission data corrected or deleted, contact the chapter you submitted it to, or us through the contact form.

8. Third-party content and external services

The Network displays content from external feeds (for example, a chapter’s social feeds or posts from a public subreddit) and links to external sites for donations, merchandise, petitions, and mutual aid. We do not control, endorse, or assume responsibility for third-party content or services. All donation and merchandise payments are processed entirely by external providers; the Network never collects payment information. Verify you are on the intended external site before entering payment details.

9. Events and in-person activity

The Network publishes times and locations for in-person events. You attend events at your own risk. The Organization and its chapters do not control venues, other attendees, counter-protesters, weather, or law-enforcement conduct, and are not liable for injury, loss, or legal consequences arising from your attendance. Follow the law, the posted accessibility and safety notes, and the instructions of event organizers. Nothing on the Network is legal advice.

10. Intellectual property; copyright complaints

Network content is owned by the Organization, its chapters, or its licensors. You may share links to, and quote reasonable excerpts of, public Network content with attribution for non-commercial advocacy purposes; all other rights are reserved. The Network’s underlying software includes open-source components licensed under their own terms (including the GPL); those licenses govern the code, not the content.

If you believe content on the Network infringes your copyright, send a notice containing the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to our designated agent: our designated copyright agent, reachable at the address published in our DMCA registration, via the contact form (subject “Legal / safety”). We respond to valid notices, including by removing content and, where appropriate, terminating repeat infringers’ access. Counter-notices may be sent to the same agent.

11. Disclaimers; limitation of liability; indemnity

• As-is. The Network is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
• Content accuracy. Chapter-authored content, including accountability content, reflects the authoring chapter’s statements and research, not a representation by the Organization.
• Limitation. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Organization, its officers, volunteers, and chapters are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost data or profits, arising from your use of the Network; and the aggregate liability of the Organization for all claims relating to the Network is limited to US $100 or the amount you paid us to use the Network (which is zero), whichever is greater. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
• Indemnity. You will defend and hold harmless the Organization from claims arising out of Your Content or your violation of these Terms.

12. Termination, changes, and general terms

• We may suspend or terminate your access (including comment privileges and form access) for violation of these Terms.
• We may modify these Terms; material changes will be announced on the Network with the new effective date. Continued use after the effective date is acceptance.
• These Terms are governed by the laws of the Organization's home jurisdiction, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes shall be resolved in the courts of that jurisdiction.
• If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remain in effect. These Terms plus the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and the Organization regarding the Network.

Part Two — Additional terms for Chapter Operators and granted users

This Part applies to anyone who operates a chapter or state subsite (“Chapter Operator”), holds an account on any Network site, or has been granted content-access permissions (including access to signup, RSVP, or inquiry records). You must be at least 18 years old to hold any of these roles. These terms apply in addition to Part One.

1. Your site, your responsibility

Each chapter subsite is administered by its Chapter Operator. You are responsible for all content published on your subsite, including content written by users you granted access to, and including your subsite’s content as automatically republished on the national site. The Organization provides the platform, network-wide moderation, and syndication; it does not pre-approve your content.

2. License and syndication

You grant the Organization the license described in Part One, Section 3, over all content published on your subsite, expressly including automatic republication on the national and state sites with source attribution. You represent that you hold sufficient rights (including from photographers, authors, testimonial subjects, and manifesto signatories) to publish and syndicate everything you publish.

3. Account and access hygiene

• Accounts are provisioned by administrators; there is no self-registration. Do not share accounts or passwords. You are responsible for activity under accounts you create or grants you assign.
• Grant content-access permissions on a need-to-know basis, and remove grants when a volunteer leaves or changes roles.
• The private-links password protects sensitive resources (for example, legal support and safety contacts). Share it only with vetted members, and rotate it when someone with access leaves.

4. Handling personal data (signups, RSVPs, inquiries)

A grant to signup, event-registration, or inquiry records gives full access to every record of that type on your site, including emails, Signal usernames, ZIP codes, and message bodies. If you hold or assign such a grant:

• Use submission data only for the purpose it was submitted for — organizing communication, event coordination, and responding to inquiries;
• Never sell, rent, trade, or publish submission data, and never export it to third-party services beyond the tools the Organization has approved for organizing communication;
• Grant these records only to trusted organizers who need them, and revoke promptly;
• Honor deletion and correction requests, and forward ones you cannot fulfill to the network privacy contact;
• Report any suspected exposure or misuse of submission data to the network security contact within 72 hours.

5. Content standards for chapter publishing

All content you publish must comply with Part One’s acceptable-use rules. In addition:

• Accuracy. Factual claims — especially in demands, press releases, and accountability content — must be accurate to the best of your knowledge and supported by documentation you retain. Cite sources where the format provides for them.
• Attribution consent. Publish a person’s name, likeness, testimonial, or authorship credit only with their consent. Use pseudonyms or initials where a contributor requests it or where identification could expose them to retaliation.
• Events. Publish accurate locations, times, accessibility notes, and a monitored organizer contact for every event. Cancel or update event listings promptly when plans change.
• Comments. If you enable comments on your posts, you are responsible for moderating them to these standards.

6. Accountability entries

Because these entries name real people and invite public contact, they carry the Network’s highest legal and safety risk, and the following are conditions of publishing them:

1. Public-interest targets only: entries must concern a person’s or organization’s public, professional, or official conduct relevant to the movement’s aims — never private individuals in their private capacity;
2. Documented factual basis: state facts you can support with retained documentation; clearly frame characterizations as opinion; no fabrication or reckless exaggeration. Defamation liability rests with the authoring chapter;
3. Business contact information only: office phone numbers and public business channels. Never home addresses, personal cell numbers, personal email accounts, family members, or any non-public information;
4. Civil call scripts: scripts must direct lawful, civil advocacy. No threats, slurs, or encouragement of repeated harassment;
5. Currency and correction: review your entries periodically; correct or remove entries that are outdated or where the underlying claim did not hold up; and comply immediately when the moderation team amends or removes an entry.

The moderation team may edit or remove any entry, network-wide, without prior notice.

7. External integrations you configure

You choose the external endpoints your subsite points at: the donate URL, merch purchase links, social feeds, livestream channels, outreach links, and the links page. You are responsible for verifying that a donate URL points to your chapter’s or the movement’s legitimate fundraising account, that feeds you syndicate (including public subreddit feeds, which display third-party posts) are appropriate for your audience, and that linked destinations comply with these Terms. Misdirecting donation links is grounds for immediate termination.

8. Legal compliance

You are responsible for compliance with laws applicable to your chapter’s activity and location, including electoral and lobbying disclosure rules (for example, “paid for by” footer disclosures where required), charitable solicitation registration where applicable, and data-protection laws applicable to the personal data you handle.

9. Suspension, termination, and offboarding

The Organization may suspend or remove content, revoke grants, suspend accounts, or archive or remove an entire chapter subsite for violation of these Terms, for inactivity, or to comply with law. On chapter dissolution or removal, the Organization may retain, archive, or delete the subsite’s content; submission records remain subject to Section 4 and will be deleted or transferred to the Organization rather than retained personally by departing operators. Operators must not retain copies of submission data after their access ends.

Questions about these Terms: use the contact form. Report content: the contact form (subject “Legal / safety”) or the moderation contact. Privacy requests: the privacy contact.