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"GitHub strongly recommends that you have reasonable policies and practices in place designed to prevent the use of a Suggestion in a way that may violate the rights of others. This includes...using the filtering features...Excerpt from GitHub's Copilot Product Terms
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The clause states: “GitHub strongly recommends that you have reasonable policies and practices in place designed to prevent the use of a Suggestion in a way that may violate the rights of others. This includes...using the filtering features...”
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