AOL India Guidelines for User Comments on Articles

By submitting a comment on this Article, you agree that you will only submit comments that are on-topic to the article, and that only contain text (i.e., no hyperlinks, code, etc.). Any irrelevant comments will not be published. You also agree not to submit text (or use names) that:

Copyright and Trademark Infringements

  • infringe on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of privacy or publicity, or other proprietary right of any party.

Language

  • Are obscene, lascivious, indecent or appeal to prurient interest or the effect whereof is such as to tend to deprave or corrupt any person
  • Insult the modesty of women
  • Are against the interests of morality and decency.
  • Denigrate an Indian court or call into question the public confidence in the administration of justice.
  • Harass or advocate harassment of another person.
  • Are intended to victimize, degrade or intimidate an individual or group of individuals on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. Hate speech is unacceptable.
  • Are vulgar content.
  • Are derogatory, incorrect statements towards corporations or brands, any personality, living or dead, communities, living or extinct, any city, building, geographical feature, etc., that can be singularly / uniquely identified in the world with a malafide intent to harm the reputation of the above.
  • Any matter knowingly or having good reason to believe that such matter is defamatory.
  • Tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely having regard to all relevant circumstances to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it
  • Are deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.

Exploitation of Minors

  • Corrupt a child and/or incite him or her to commit various crimes.

Advertising

  • Advertise or sell any product or service.

Violence

  • Describe violence in a gratuitous manner, without journalistic or artistic merit, primarily intended to agitate or cause emotional distress.
  • Condone, threaten and/or instigate physical harm towards others, or oneself.

Illegal Activity

  • Are illegal or incite illegal activity such as physical and/or death threats, or provide instruction on how to conduct or participate in illegal activity.

Network Abuse

  • Use our network in a manner that causes undue strain (spam), is destructive (viruses), or compromises the integrity of our consumer audiences (Trojans, password/billing solicitation).
  • Remove or hide advertisements within any AOL India page.

Links

  • Contain any URLs.

Other

  • Otherwise use the service in a manner deemed inappropriate by AOL.

Although the above terms and conditions are subjective, you agree to view the above guidelines from the India view point and in strict adherence to the India sentiment on the same. AOL India reserves the right to change these guidelines at any time. Determination of violations of these guidelines is at the sole discretion of AOL. Any submissions that violate law may be referred to the appropriate authorities, and AOL India reserves the right to track IP and e-mail addresses for this purpose and for related purposes. Please note that names used in conjunction with submissions are not exclusive.

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