You agree to defend Reddit and pay for any legal costs or damages Reddit faces as a result of your use of the platform, your content, or your violation of these Terms or any third-party rights.
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The indemnification clause allocates legal and financial risk to users for disputes stemming from their activities on the platform, requiring users to bear costs of Reddit's defense in such disputes rather than Reddit absorbing those costs directly.
Individual Reddit users can be required to personally pay Reddit's legal defense costs and damages if Reddit is sued because of content the user posted or actions the user took on the platform.
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The indemnification clause allocates legal and financial risk to users for disputes stemming from their activities on the platform, requiring users to bear costs of Reddit's defense in such disputes rather than Reddit absorbing those costs directly.
Individual Reddit users can be required to personally pay Reddit's legal defense costs and damages if Reddit is sued because of content the user posted or actions the user took on the platform.
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