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Statutory Instrument
2021, No. 9
RMB Moderation Regulations 2021
2021, No. 9
RMB Moderation Regulations 2021
Made 11 February 2021 00.58 GMT+1
Coming into force immediately
The Moderation Committee, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3(a) of the RMB Moderation Act 2019, makes the following regulations,
- These regulations may be cited as the RMB Regulations 2021. These regulations shall come into force immediately. RMB Moderation Regulations 2020, also known as RMB Regulations 2020, are repealed.
- Posters shall refrain from making:
- Triple posts. three posts in a row;
- Roleplay. posts which make an attempt at roleplay or make declarations in an in-character perspective;
- Hate speech. posts utilising derogatory language on individuals on account of characteristics such as, but not limited to: race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, and disabled status;
- Threats. posts which contain threats of violence or violent acts against anyone or any nation;
- Defamation. defamatory posts;
- Malicious links. posts containing links to inappropriate, gruesome, or illegal contents;
- Sensitive content. posts expressing apology or jokes about the following and the persons who committed the following: genocides, mass-murders, and other atrocities;
- Quote editing. posts editing a quotation with offensive or malicious intentions;
- Spam. posts whose contents are meaningless and unsolicited;
- Flaming. posts aggressively insulting, swearing at or verbally abusing another person on the board;
- Sexual contents. posts containing sexting, sexual role-play, or other communications of a sexual nature;
- Recruitment. posts advertising regions; or
- Offense solicitation. posts which prompt, incite or further any kind of behaviour prohibited in these regulations.
- Triple posts. three posts in a row;
- Defamation definition. For the purposes of these regulations, a 'defamatory post' is a post which constitutes defamation.
- Defamation is an (1) unproven statement of fact (2) made to a third party that (3) damages a person's reputation (4) in a way which would more than non-trivially lower one's estimation of or deter third parties from engaging with that person.
- 'Statement of fact' means a statement that can be falsified in a European court.
- Defamation does not include, however, statements which are:
- made in good faith and under a reasonable assumption of veracity,
- mere vulgar abuse,
- made with honest belief in their truth on a matter of public interest, so long as a reasonable person could believe such statements,
- made with the consent of the person being described, or
- disseminated without knowledge of the statement or without reason to believe that the statement is defamatory.
- made in good faith and under a reasonable assumption of veracity,
- Claims of defamation must be made within 20 days between the initial making of the defamatory statement and the origination of a claim against the maker.
- Defamation is an (1) unproven statement of fact (2) made to a third party that (3) damages a person's reputation (4) in a way which would more than non-trivially lower one's estimation of or deter third parties from engaging with that person.
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