# WEB-123 — No hate-group brand

> The brand website must not host or promote the identity, materials or fundraising of a hate group.

- **Rule ID:** WEB-123
- **Layer:** Website (`WEBSITE`)
- **Checks:** `crawled website content`
- **Severity:** BLOCKING — Breaking this rule gets the submission rejected outright.
- **When it bites:** Gates approval — get this wrong and registration is refused
- **How it is detected:** AI judgement over the crawled website or policy page
- **Fix type:** Hard stop — not remediable, resubmission will not help
- **Required by:** Bandwidth, CTIA
- **Applies:** Applies to every 10DLC registration.
- **Canonical URL:** https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/website/web-123/

## Why this rule exists

CTIA names hate groups as a category carriers will not carry, and the assessment is of the organisation rather than of any particular message — so nothing in the campaign can rescue it. Public listings are consulted alongside the site, which means a brand can be refused on an identification it has never seen and cannot argue with inside the registration.

## How to fix it

This category cannot be registered. Where the brand is a research, journalism or advocacy organisation whose site quotes such material to counter it, say so in the campaign description and expect the registration to be reviewed by a person.

## Notes

Judged partly from external listings the product does not hold, so a PASS here is a PASS on the retrieved content only. Ranked alongside WEB-122 as a refusal rather than a finding.