APTA Social Media Policy

Commenting is supported on social media pages owned or administered by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) to create a safe environment and to encourage expression. All comments reflect the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official views of APTA. In its sole discretion, APTA reserves the right to not post comments, to hide comments or to remove comments that reflect the following concerns:

• Vulgar, profane, threatening, or abusive language; any hate speech.
• Comments that negatively target ethnicity, race, sex/gender, nationality, religion, or other protected classes.
• Nudity.
• Spam, the same comment posted repeatedly, or nonsensical/illegible comments.
• Endorsements of products, services, organizations, or other entities.
• Endorsements of political parties, political candidates, or political groups.
• Content that infringes on intellectual property rights.
• Information that would violate privacy laws.
• Solicitation of funds or self-promotion.

APTA also reserves the right to ban or block repeat offenders from social media profiles or posts.