Comments Policy

The FOIA Project encourages the use of this blog for conversations around general issues of the Freedom of Information Act as well as specific cases. This Comments Policy is intended to foster such conversations.

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Each comment should be on-topic, appropriate to the entry under which it was made as well as to other comments to which it is posted as a response. Comments which include offensive or inappropriate language, or are considered by the blog owner and administrator to be rude and offensive, may be edited or deleted. Please refrain from personal attacks. You may question or argue the content, but not attack the blogger, nor any other commenter.

This is a moderated blog. Failure to respect fellow participants or this Comments Policy could result in comments being deleted and future access being blocked. We reserve the right to delete, edit, or move any comment. Comments posted using sock puppet accounts will be deleted, as well as those we consider to be spam. Any comment with two or more links is identified as spam, which may prevent a comment from appearing.

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