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interfere with or circumvent Product usage limits or Scope of Use restrictions
Discriminate regarding access to communities or groups that you create, manage, lead, or participate in.
You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)
"circumvent any functionality that controls access to or otherwise protects CL or the APIExcerpt from Craigslist's Terms of Use
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The clause states: “circumvent any functionality that controls access to or otherwise protects CL or the API”
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