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External link guidelines

The blog links we feature on our programme pages are found automatically and checked when they are first found by moderators. A blog post or external site is classed as unsuitable if it contains, or directly links to, material which is:

• Offensive...
• Pornography or sexually explicit content
• Text or images likely to offend the audience of the programme (e.g. swearing in a link from a family show)
• Hate (on the ground of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or personal attack)
• Gratuitous violence
• Unlawful...
• Condones or encourages unlawful acts
• Breaches copyright law or encourages others to do so (e.g. peer-to-peer music sites or illegal downloads)
• Defamation or contempt of court
• Hacking or other technical disruption to online services
• Describes how to conduct an unlawful act
• Presents access or safety problems
• Pay-to-view or other subscription
• Site initiates a download
• Site requires obscure software
• 18+ site (e.g. gambling)
• Foreign language site with no English language version
• Site requiring registration before any content can be viewed
• Promotional...
• Solely for-profit products and services (no editorial content)
• Pay-to-list directory
• Cascading site (automatically launching numerous windows)
• Campaigning
• Lacks value...
• Site that is largely reproducing other sources

The fact that a link appears on a bbc.co.uk does not mean that the BBC in any way endorses the content of that website and is not responsible for its content or actions.

The BBC welcomes feedback, both positive and negative, about our programmes and services and we aim to reflect this in the pages we link to. We reserve the right not to link to blogs which repeatedly write personal or offensive comments about individual members of the public or people who work for the BBC, and to remove links to posts to which we have already linked.

To report a broken or unsuitable link, please fill in this form, including the URL of the site, as well as the URL of the BBC programme page where you found the link.