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This prohibition bars a broad range of discriminatory and hateful advertising content, covering multiple protected characteristics and three distinct forms of harmful expression.
Interpretive note: The excerpt ends with an ellipsis, indicating additional protected characteristics exist in the full policy that are not reproduced here. The canonical claim reflects only those explicitly quoted.
Readers who place ads must not include content that incites hatred against, promotes discrimination of, or disparages individuals or groups on the basis of the listed protected characteristics.
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This prohibition bars a broad range of discriminatory and hateful advertising content, covering multiple protected characteristics and three distinct forms of harmful expression.
Readers who place ads must not include content that incites hatred against, promotes discrimination of, or disparages individuals or groups on the basis of the listed protected characteristics.
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