Making comments on Channel 4 Programmes:
Know your rights (and wrongs)

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Registering

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• Sorry if your email confirming your registration takes a while to arrive. Please be patient.
• Also please don’t expect your comment to appear immediately. Comments can take a while to process. If your post never appears, then you will have broken one of the cardinal sins. So please don’t revert to a stream of Anglo-Saxon to emphasize your point.

Conduct

• We want a good, clean fight, nothing below the belt, nothing that wouldn’t be allowed in the school playground.
• If you can’t say it without using obscene, violent, indecent, libellous words, or anything that could be considered harassment, threatening or offensive, then please don’t say it.
• Steer clear of promoting cruelty, violence, vandalism, fraudulent, terrorist or other criminal acts or encouraging others to commit illegal acts or harm others in any way.
• …And don’t use any b****y asterisks.

Links and Quotes

• While Channel 4 isn’t responsible for your utterances or anything said on external sites, we do remove links to anything other than a recognised news source, such as the papers.
• Don’t paste large chunks of an article into your post, though a brief quote should avoid copyright issues.

Complaints

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And Finally

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