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Âé¶¹TV’s Comments and Posting Policy

Publications
Contact: Anne Baker
[email protected]
VP, Communications & Public Affairs
(202) 266-8447

Âé¶¹TV encourages comments and opinions from visitors of our websites and Âé¶¹TV’s social media communities. Constructive criticism and healthy debate are welcome, as long as they do not stray off-topic, are appropriate in nature and are beneficial to other readers.

On Âé¶¹TV-managed social media communities such as Facebook and LinkedIn, any comments that violate the Âé¶¹TV policy will be removed after they are posted. Currently, all comments on Âé¶¹TV websites enter an approval queue for review by Âé¶¹TV before being posted on the websites. No anonymous comments will be posted.

Relevant and appropriate comments will be posted, but comments that are inappropriate will be removed from the Âé¶¹TV website, affiliated sites, and associated social media groups. Such comments include:

  • Advertisements, promotions or solicitations (including posts we feel are SPAM)
  • Language that is degrading based on gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, nationality or disability; profanity and obscenity, including sexually explicit language; and threatening, harassing, defamatory or libelous material and language
  • Material that infringes the copyrights, trademarks or other intellectual property of any party
  • Information that violates someone’s reasonable expectation of privacy
  • Information you know to be confidential, sensitive or otherwise unlawful
  • Impersonation of anyone else
  • Intentionally false or misleading statements including, but not limited to, fake positive reviews, fake negative reviews of competitors or bogus blog postings
  • Uses of the name or likeness or a third party for commercial purposes
  • Comments that are irrelevant to the nature of the article or discussion thread.

All comments are the property of Âé¶¹TV and may be used, at its discretion, by the Âé¶¹TV for promotional or educational purposes. Âé¶¹TV will not knowingly post content to an associated social media group that violates any rule or policy of that site, i.e., Facebook policies. Nevertheless, the Âé¶¹TV is not responsible for any actions resulting from the posting of a reader-submitted comment either on its websites or social media accounts.

Âé¶¹TV’s employment of Âé¶¹TV-owned trademarks in conjunction with your comment or posting does not grant you any rights in or to Âé¶¹TV’s intellectual property.