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While this is a free exchange, The Royal Gazette and its designees reserve the right to end or suspend your use of the Service for any transmission of User Content or any other actions which The Royal Gazette determines, in its sole judgment, to be offensive, illegal, or might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of others or otherwise violate these Terms of Service. The following is a partial list of the kind of User Content that is prohibited from transmission through the Service:■You shall not upload to, or distribute or otherwise publish on to the comments section any libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or otherwise illegal material.■Threats, personal attacks, harassment or advocating the harassment of another person.■Solicitations or advertisements.■Impersonating any person or entity or falsely misrepresenting your affiliation with any other person or entity.■Behaviour invasive of another person's or entity's privacy.■Promoting or providing information that you know to be false or misleading.■Promoting or providing instructional information about illegal activities.■Infringing any patent, copyright, trademark, service mark, trade secret or other proprietary right of any other party.■Comments unrelated to the discussion or material in the Service area.■Taking any action which disrupts the operation of the Service.■You agree that you will not threaten or verbally abuse other Members, use defamatory language, or deliberately disrupt discussions with repetitive messages, meaningless messages or "spam."■You agree not to use language that abuses or discriminates on the basis of race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual preference, age, region, disability, etc. Hate speech of any kind is grounds for immediate and permanent suspension of access to all or part of the Services.■The Royal Gazette encourages active discussions and welcomes heated debate on the Services, but personal attacks are a direct violation of these Terms of Service and are grounds for immediate and permanent suspension of access to all or part of the Service.■We will be aggressive in banning users who don't regularly post quality comments as well as those with a high percentage of deleted comments.■We will delete all comments that direct name-calling and insults at other commenters.■We will add words to our list of terms that call for automatic deletion of a comment.■We will be more aggressive in our efforts to eliminate "trolling" - generally defined as posting comments that serve more to incite emotional responses and disrupt conversations.■Advertisements/promotions, spam (including multiple posts that contain the same or similar content), off-topic content, plagiarism and/or copyrighted material.