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Social media comment policy

Published 10 November 2021

 

AMA Queensland uses social media to inform members and the public about current and emerging health issues, events and training, and advice and support, to create better health outcomes for our community and profession. At this time, we maintain an official presence on the following social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. These accounts are produced, maintained and monitored by the AMA Queensland social media team. 

Each of these social media platforms are controlled and operated by third parties with their own privacy policies, and the AMA Queensland's Privacy Policy does not apply. Follow these links to learn more about a specific privacy policy: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube.

While the AMA Queensland social media pages are an open forum, they also family friendly ones and are focussed on representing our members who are medical doctors in Queensland. Please keep your comments polite. When contributing, do not post any material that contains:

  • hate speech
  • profanity, obscenity or vulgarity
  • 'conspiracy theories' or unscientific claims
  • comments that could be considered prejudicial, racist or inflammatory
  • nudity or offensive imagery in profile pictures
  • defamation to a person or people
  • name calling and/or personal attacks
  • comments whose main purpose are to sell a product
  • advertising, spam, selling or links to external sites. This includes posts used to direct traffic to other sites, blogs or social media pages
  • comments that infringe on copyrights
  • spam comments from individuals or groups, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on one or more posts on a single profile
  • personal information about you or another individuals (including identifying information, email addresses, phone numbers or private addresses)
  • false representation of another individual, organisation, government or entity
  • promotion of a product, business, company or organisation.

AMA Queensland retains the right to remove/hide/block any content that does not comply with this policy or that the AMA Queensland social media team deems inappropriate.

Repeated violations of the Comment Policy may cause the author to be blocked from the relevant page.