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This provision establishes a binding operational boundary on permissible service use and defines a category of conduct that violates the usage agreement. It operates as a mandatory compliance requirement that applies across all users and use cases.
Interpretive note: The term 'critical safety systems' is not defined, creating ambiguity for operators in industrial, healthcare, or transportation sectors about whether their use cases approach this prohibition.
Users are required to refrain from using the service for attacks or disruptions targeting critical infrastructure or safety systems. Violation of this provision creates grounds for service suspension or termination under the terms.
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You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior exp...
relate to transactions involving (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime... (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
You must not, and must not allow others to: Facilitate illegal or harmful activity through the End User Services; Cause harm to us or others through the End User Services;
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This provision establishes a binding operational boundary on permissible service use and defines a category of conduct that violates the usage agreement. It operates as a mandatory compliance requirement that applies across all users and use cases.
Users are required to refrain from using the service for attacks or disruptions targeting critical infrastructure or safety systems. Violation of this provision creates grounds for service suspension or termination under the terms.
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