Social media is one of the most direct and important ways the South Carolina Department of Agriculture (SCDA) communicates with the public. Online social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn are valuable tools used by our agency. We encourage your comments — your ideas and concerns are important to help ensure that a broad range of South Carolinians are active and informed participants in the discussion conducted on our social media pages. SCDA reserves the right to modify this policy at any time.
All comments on SCDA social media pages are reviewed. SCDA expressly reserves the right to remove comments from its pages that do not comply with this Policy. In addition, we expect that participants will treat each other, as well as our agency and our employees, with respect and dignity.
Comments may be removed if they contain:
- Hate speech or hateful content;
- Violent or graphic content;
- Profanity, obscenity, or vulgarity;
- Nudity, including nudity in profile pictures, or sexual content;
- Defamatory statements;
- Threats, name-calling, or personal attacks of any kind to any person, including SCDA employees;
- Content that promotes, fosters, or perpetuates discrimination;
- Solicitations of commerce that promote commercial services or products (non-commercial links that are relevant to the particular posting being commented upon are acceptable);
- Comments that may infringe on copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other forms of intellectual property;
- Content that is not topically related to the particular posting being commented upon or spam comments, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on a profile, or links to non topically related websites;
- Comments in support of, or opposition to, political campaigns, candidates or ballot measures;
- Information that may compromise the safety, security, or proceedings of public systems or any criminal or civil investigations;
- Harmful or dangerous content;
- Personally identifiable/sensitive personal information or impersonations; and
- Content that violates federal or state law, or any SCDA policy.
We won’t edit comments to remove objectionable content, rather comments will be removed in their entirety, so please be sure that your comments contain none of the above.
To protect your own privacy and the privacy of others, please do not include personally identifiable information, such as Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, or email addresses in the body of your comment. Under no circumstances will comments be allowed to remain that contain Social Security numbers, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, or similar personally identifiable information.
