Community Chat

[Greeneyedlady21]

Community Guidelines

These guidelines are in place to help create a safe environment on all social media channels run by The Royal Family, Clarence House and Kensington Palace.

The aim of our social media channels is to create an environment where our community can engage safely in debate and is free to make comments, questions and suggestions.

We ask that anyone engaging with our social media channels shows courtesy, kindness and respect for all other members of our social media communities.

In order to help create this safe environment we have set out some guidelines which apply to any engagement with us or other members of the community on any of our social media channels.

By engaging with our social media channels you agree to follow these guidelines.

Comments must not:

• Contain spam, be defamatory of any person, deceive others, be obscene, offensive, threatening, abusive, hateful, inflammatory or promote sexually explicit material or violence.
• Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.

• Breach any of the terms of any of the social media platforms themselves.
• Be off-topic, irrelevant or unintelligible.
• Contain any advertising or promote any services.

Breach of guidelines

We reserve the right to determine, at our discretion, whether contributions to our social media channels breach our guidelines. We reserve the right to hide or delete comments made on our channels, as well as block users who do not follow these guidelines.

We also reserve the right to send any comments we deem appropriate to law enforcement authorities for investigation as we feel necessary or is required by law.

[50Mickey]

Good for them.

[sunshine45]

pretty much like the QVC forums.......

[SharkE]

Hopefully they will catch the ones whose behind the ugly posts and prosecute them. Young people who don't know the implication of what they're saying, but, they have to learn.

[grandma r]

As well they should!!!

HRH's William and Harry will protect their families.

[Harvard99]

Censorship......the control of information circulated within a society and the hallmark of the self-designated powerful throughout history.

eta-  I never considered the monarchy a dictatorship, until now.

[Nancy Drew]

Good for them, I have no problem blocking nasty  people.

[Trinity11]

It is a shame that it has come to this. Some people just cannot stop themselves from being rude and inappropriate. It is a good thing that Kensington Palace will put a stop now to the nastiness and have the ability to turn over any inappropriate posts to law enforcement.

This is not about freedom of speech either. It is about knowing the difference between abhorent behavior and acceptable behavior.

[TY]

I suspect that the royals will have to disable comments on their KP social media accounts as their social media managers are having to spend a lot of time moderating and cleaning up after the trolls.

[bikerbabe]

An entity that runs a social media site has the right to allow or disalllow whatever content they see fit. No different than qvc guidelines or Facebook rules (although it could be argued that FB has a lousy track record in this regard).

Basically, my party, my rules. Don’t like it? Start your own social media site. That has nothing to do with violating freedom of speech.