The Palace, handling public relations for Meghan, Prince Harry, Kate and Prince William, issued a rare statement where it outlines its new “social media community guidelines”. The message warns social media users who break these rules could face a series of penalties, ranging from the deletion of their messages, blocking their accounts to the intervention of law enforcement authorities. Kensington Palace’s statement said: “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.”
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The comments, the statement continued, must not be “defamatory of any person, deceive others, be obscene, offensive, threatening, abusive, hateful, inflammatory or promote sexually explicit material or violence”.
And they can’t “promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.”
They also can’t be “off-topic, irrelevant
