The seven questions
One: is the content standard written, and may we read it? Two: is it the same for every customer, or does it vary by settings? Three: does review happen before content reaches the screen, or after? Four: what exactly happens when review cannot complete - does content flow or stop? Five: what happens to gray-area material - hidden, or shown with a warning? Six: are the hard-no categories closed absolutely, or negotiable? Seven: does delivery respect rights - official embeds and real licenses - or does the product quietly re-host what it does not own?
A provider's answers to these seven tell you nearly everything. Evasion on any of them - 'proprietary,' 'it depends,' 'trust us' - is itself an answer.
Our answers, on the record
For FilteredTube: the standard is written and its behavior is documented across this library. It is identical for every customer. Review precedes the screen. When review cannot complete, nothing unreviewed is shown. Gray material is hidden with an appeal path. Hard-no categories are closed without appeal. Outside content plays only through official privacy-enhanced embeds, and downloads exist only where documented rights cover them.
We publish these answers so that leaders can hold us to them publicly. A standard that cannot survive its community's scrutiny does not deserve its community's trust - and the reverse is also true: scrutiny is how trust becomes rational.
At a glance
Key takeaways
- Seven questions expose any filtered product's real nature.
- Evasive answers are answers.
- Our answers are published precisely so we can be held to them.
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