Campaign For Liberty Content Standards
The Campaign For Liberty strives to become a leading grassroots lobby at the national, state, and local level. The social networking tools that we provide are just that—tools. They are tools for activists to connect with other activists in their area, to spread information, to run successful events, to lobby politicians, to support candidates, and to influence voters.
Clearly, it is important that our members and guest users represent the campaign with dignity. We have therefore established guidelines for user-created content (eg blog entries and comments). In some situations, violations of these guidelines may result in a written warning and an edit or removal of the offending content. In other situations, your content posting abilities may be revoked. The decision is made at the sole discretion of Campaign For Liberty staff.
1. Obscene language is not allowed. We reserve the right to decide what constitutes obscenity, hate speech, or the like on our website. The Campaign For Liberty opposes legislation on obscenity and hate speech but we have a right to maintain this policy for our website. Sensitive topics concerning race are not off-limits but should be handled delicately.
2. Personal attacks on our members are not allowed. If you have a disagreement, attack the argument, not the speaker. It is OK to say "so-and-so didn't show up for the phone bank," but not "so-and-so is an idiot."
3. Comments on blog entries should generally relate to the blog entry itself, not respond to other comments. If you would like to start up a discussion with another member based on a comment they left on someone else's blog post, you may do so by writing your own blog entry, or commenting on their blog, or sending them a message. Comments with links to outside sites should be relevant to the subject of the blog post.
4. The calendar feature is for campaign purposes only. Use it to schedule meetings, rallies, fund-raisers, discussion groups, political party meetings and conventions, and the like. Do not use it to promote your band's next show or the kegger at Bob's next weekend.
5. You have more leeway with coarse language when sending one-to-one messages (since users have the ability to block you) but if users are complaining that you are sending harassing or otherwise abusive messages, corrective action may be taken.
6. Members are solely responsible for crediting the source of any posted material to the Campaign for Liberty website. Plagiarism by members is not acceptable and will result in a written warning and an edit or removal of the content.
7. The Campaign for Liberty website in its present form exists to inform and mobilize activists, not to showcase advertisements. We discourage the repeated use of your weblog for advertising.
The Campaign For Liberty reserves the right to remove material for any other reason if it is determined to countervail the goals of the Campaign For Liberty.
