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The prohibition covers facilitation—not only direct conduct—meaning a user who enables or assists illegal or harmful activity through the End User Services also violates the policy.
Interpretive note: The term 'harmful' is undefined in the excerpt, leaving the outer boundary of prohibited facilitation uncertain. The canonical claim preserves the word without narrowing or broadening it.
Users are prohibited from using the End User Services to enable, assist, or otherwise facilitate activity that is illegal or harmful.
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"You must not, and must not allow others to: Facilitate illegal or harmful activity through the End User ServicesExcerpt from Stripe's Acceptable Use Policy
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The prohibition covers facilitation—not only direct conduct—meaning a user who enables or assists illegal or harmful activity through the End User Services also violates the policy.
Users are prohibited from using the End User Services to enable, assist, or otherwise facilitate activity that is illegal or harmful.
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