VT: Policy, Disclosures and Terms of Service

About Us – Policies & Disclosures – Comment Policy


Racism, Bigotry, and Violence

VT stands 100% against racism, bigotry, hate speech, and violence. Period!  VT criticizes public individuals, policymakers, and governments.  VT does NOT condone or accept racism, bigotry, hate speech, or violence from its writers.  Period.

Posts

With over 60,000 articles published, there may be some racism, bigotry and violence in posts that VT editors may have NOT seen or slipped by.  If any reader sees such a thing, notify VT immediately.

Comments

With over 500,000 people commenting on VT media, there are definitely racist, bigoted things said by commenters who clearly are racists and bigots.  We allow these commenters to express themselves because, while we 100% opposed racism and bigotry, it’s absolutely a position that many people worldwide have openly embraced.  While we are disgusted by their positions, we extend them the right to freely express themselves.  We prefer to let racism and bigotry live in the open so we can address in a very public way.  We want true discourse and, if there are racists and bigots who comment on VT posts, so be it.  They stand for themselves in the open.

One thing VT won’t accept is any commenters advocating for violence.  So if you see that on VT, report it immediately.

Fake News or Journalism?

Opinion and Advocacy Journalism is where we reside online in the uncensored alternative media space.   In fact, Opinion Journalism makes no claim of objectivity. Although distinguished from Advocacy Journalism in several ways, both forms feature a subjective viewpoint, usually with some social or political purpose. Common examples include newspaper columns, editorials, op-eds, editorial cartoons, and punditry.  We are all above.

To assist all readers, at the bottom of every article, we post a Disclosure Box in BIG BOLD font.  Here’s an example of the Disclosure Box;

More, we actually encourage our truly 100% independent writers to exercise their free will and express their opinions on the facts.  And when the facts presented are incorrect, we do our very best to immediately correct and cite sources. In this way, we make it clear that we reject Fake News but reserve the right to express opinions on the facts so that readers can get alternative intelligent points of view from experts in their fields.

Furthermore, we encourage all visitors to be truly objective and get all sides of the story before making any opinions and engaging in intelligent discourse.

In pursuit of such an objective noble aim; we strongly advise all visitors to fact-check from other notable reliable sources and even go to opposing point-of-view sites to get different opinions. Then form their own fully educated objective opinions and judgments.

It is through this ethos of fact-checking and seeing all sides that, together, we can avoid the Fake News pitfalls that grips our global community.  In other words, use common sense; always double and triple-check other sources.

Sourcing Articles

All editors and writers are required to source their articles properly.  It is mandatory.  Readers must know where data and information is coming from.  So If you suspect an article is NOT properly sourced, contact us immediately.

Ethics and Values

Our open independent sites stand for freedom, justice, equality, and truth. We aim to stand up for our fellow man worldwide regardless of where they come from what they look like.

We encourage success for our independent writers, independent editors, readers, columnists, advertisers, affiliates, and partners who value our site and stand up for equality, freedom, liberty, truth, and the pursuit of justice for all whilst standing up against oppression and racism always.

Content Integrity and Copyright

Our sites are open-source for independent writers. Editors and writers are 100% independent. They are NOT paid, employees or contractors. They are 100% independent and post because they care about the issues. They own their work and thus, the copyright for each article belongs to that respective writer and NOT VT. Plain and Simple!

So be clearly advised the views expressed on articles are of the author exclusively and not necessarily the views of this site, this site’s authors, affiliates, advertisers, sponsors, partners, technicians, or the VT and its assigns. Some content may be satirical in nature.

Legal Responsibility and Images

As part of the privilege of posting on VT, writers agree to take full responsibility 100% for all content they post. In lieu, VT has no legal liability relating to content or images. Thus any legal issues on images or content must be taken up with the author directly.

All images posted within an article are the responsibility of the author and NOT the responsibility of the VT.  In other words, authors upload and use images that they are responsible for and have received legal approvals.

Be a great net citizen!

Authors do their best to use images that are NOT copyrighted by anyone.  They have zero intent to step on anyone’s toes.  However, the net is a huge place. It is virtually impossible to manage and be perfect.  So if you find an image used by any author that may be owned by some-else or copyrighted without our knowledge, just tell us.  We will delete it immediately.  It’s that simple!

Report Copyright Violations

It is our policy NOT to publish any copyrighted material.  Period!  However, if such an event occurs without the knowledge of VT, the said material will be immediately removed upon written notice. If you feel that your copyrighted material appears on this website without your permission, please send your request to remove it by submitting a support ticket.

Reprint or Re-post Permissions

You must get permission from the author directly to re-post any article. If they give expressed permission, we ask that you link back to the original article.

Report Ethical Violations

If you feel that an article or comment presented on-site violates our ethics and values and presents harm to the readership, please report; submit a support ticket.

Your mail will be sent to our management and forwarded to the appropriate site Editorial Board for review. Please be specific in your report and include the URL address, title of the article or comment, and any other information that you would think helpful for a review. The board will take action and respond back to you.

Privacy

We do not sell any information harvested on our site. In fact, the only time we get the info on readers is when comments are posted and we only do that to prevent spammers from posting garbage porn and gambling site URLs, getting free authority linkbacks. Anyway, we are able to learn the IP address from comment posters so we can ID where they are when they are posted. Any other information provided is purely by the consent of the poster.

Minors

In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, no one under 13 years of age can use our websites. If you are a minor between the ages of 13 and 18, you may use our Site only in conjunction with your parent, legal guardian, or another responsible adult.

Links

When you click on links within any one of our sites and go to another non-VT site, be aware our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on websites that have a link to our sites or any links contained in a linked site, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies.

VT is NOT responsible for the privacy practices employed by these sites, nor the information or content contained therein. We provide these links to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by our sites of site. Please read over the rules and policies of these sites before proceeding. If you have concerns about any site that is linked to our site, please contact us.