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This provision establishes a normative boundary on permitted API use cases by excluding applications targeting electoral systems or democratic governance. The restriction functions as a content policy that delineates prohibited use categories within the service terms.
Defense contractors and federal agencies using Claude must find alternatives. Enterprise customers with defense-adjacent business face compliance risk.
View change record →Users are prohibited from deploying API applications for electoral interference, election manipulation, or democratic process compromise. Violation of this restriction would constitute a material breach of the API usage terms and expose the user to service termination.
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This provision establishes a normative boundary on permitted API use cases by excluding applications targeting electoral systems or democratic governance. The restriction functions as a content policy that delineates prohibited use categories within the service terms.
Users are prohibited from deploying API applications for electoral interference, election manipulation, or democratic process compromise. Violation of this restriction would constitute a material breach of the API usage terms and expose the user to service termination.
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