Child safety

The standard

Child sexual abuse and exploitation material has no place on Curio, in any form, ever. That includes images and video, text that sexualises a child, links to such material anywhere else, and any attempt to use Curio to find, groom or contact a child for that purpose.

This is not a rule with degrees. There is no warning, no strike, and no second chance: the account is removed, the material is preserved for the authorities rather than simply deleted, and the matter is reported.

Who can use Curio

Curio is for people aged 13 and over, and it is not directed at children. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 13 it is removed.

What Curio does to prevent it

The surface is deliberately small. Curio is built around links to published work. A post is a link plus one short note, and the only images the app shows are cover art and thumbnails fetched from the services that hold them. The single image anyone can upload is their own profile picture.

Notes are checked before they are stored. The check runs in the database rather than in the app, so it cannot be bypassed by a modified client, and it refuses a note before it is written rather than after it is read.

There is no private messaging. Curio ships with no direct messages, no group chat and no way to contact another person privately in the app. The route by which grooming usually happens does not exist here.

Reporting it, in the app

Any post can be reported. Open the post, choose the menu, choose Report.

Any account can be reported. Open the corner, choose Report, beside Block.

You do not need an account to tell us. Write to hello@curiocc.app with a link or a handle and it will be read.

What happens next

Reports are read by a person. Curio is made by one person, so that person is the operator, and reports of this kind are treated ahead of everything else rather than queued behind ordinary moderation.

Where a report is credible, in this order: the content is removed and the account is closed; the material and the account records are preserved rather than destroyed, because deleting evidence helps nobody; and the matter is reported to the authorities.

Reports go to Cybertip.ca, the agency designated under Canada’s mandatory reporting law, and to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children where the report concerns the United States. Curio cooperates fully with law enforcement requests.

Point of contact

For anything on this page, including requests from platforms, regulators or law enforcement: hello@curiocc.app.

It reaches the operator directly rather than a queue, and messages about child safety are answered ahead of everything else.

If a child is in immediate danger

Contact your local emergency services first. Curio cannot act with the speed or the authority that a police force can, and a report to us is not a substitute for one to them.