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While we do not discriminate against views or opinions posted to our social networking accounts, we reserve the right to remove any comment. A comment will not be edited or modified to remove unacceptable content; the entire comment will simply be deleted. Some of the reasons we may remove a comment are listed below:
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Comments will not be edited to remove unacceptable content; the comments will just be deleted. Users will be reported as abuse if they post three or more comments that meet the above criteria.
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