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It is standard CYA terms to keep them from getting sued by their users whenever they decide to change the site in such a way that displays your content in a different manner than what you expected.



Then they should say that's what it's for. I think that would be simple enough.


Every service you've ever signed up for that accepts user-generated/submitted content has a clause functionally identical to this.

Of course, every time someone reads one of those clauses they think it implies all sorts of evil, because reading comprehension is not a strong suit of the internet.


To put it other way round, maybe comprehensive writing is not a strong suite of the Internet.




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