Netiquette

Our social media channels give you a glimpse of ongoing research activities, fascinating background information, fantastic images and videos, and all the latest news from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR). Our social media channels allow us to publicise our latest news and interact with you. We welcome any comments, criticism, suggestions, opinions and lively discussion. Of course, you can also send us a direct message.

Maintaining a friendly and respectful tone is absolutely essential. Comment, discuss, debate factually and be civil. We urge you not to set out to provoke people, and not to let yourself be provoked. Each and every person has the right to freedom of expression – within the limits of the law. As a publicly funded research institution, we remain politically neutral. Our channels are all about research and development, innovation and technology transfer. We do not tolerate comments that include any of the following:

  • Insults, threats or slander of any kind
  • Discrimination against or defamation of persons and groups
  • Calls for violence against persons, institutions, companies and organisations
  • Extreme stances, racism, antisemitism and sexism
  • Pornography and obscenities
  • Infringements of the rights of Third Parties
  • The publication of private correspondence and personal data (addresses, email addresses or telephone numbers)

Furthermore, the comment function below posts is there to allow people to discuss the topic at hand. As such, we do not welcome:

  • Comments that are unrelated to the topic of the post
  • Links to websites with no connection to the original post or are provided without any explanatory comment
  • Misuse of the comments function for advertising purposes
  • Calls for campaigns, demonstrations or donations

Please be constructive and factual in your comments and maintain a polite tone.

We reserve the right to hide or delete comments that violate our guidelines. If our netiquette is infringed despite repeated warnings, the profile of the offending party will be blocked on our channels. Every user is responsible for the content of any posts.