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      "id": "learn_r1085_newsletters_risks_buttondown_content_violence",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Buttondown: Rules.content",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Buttondown prohibits content that advocates or promotes violence against individuals or groups based on protected class membership.",
      "body": "Buttondown prohibits content that advocates or promotes violence against individuals or groups based on protected class membership.\n\nWhat Buttondown, LLC actually says:\n\n“You may not use Buttondown to host or publish any material that: Advocates or promotes violence against an individual or group of people based on membership in a protected class.”",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://buttondown.com/terms",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-01",
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      "evidence_quote": "You may not use Buttondown to host or publish any material that: Advocates or promotes violence against an individual or group of people based on membership in a protected class.",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "applies_to_country": "*",
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        "stage": "running",
        "region": [
          "any"
        ],
        "platform": "buttondown",
        "topic": [
          "rules.content"
        ],
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      "id": "learn_r1085_newsletters_risks_buttondown_content_impersonation",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Buttondown: Rules.content",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Buttondown prohibits malicious impersonation of real persons or entities or misrepresentation of affiliation.",
      "body": "Buttondown prohibits malicious impersonation of real persons or entities or misrepresentation of affiliation.\n\nWhat Buttondown, LLC actually says:\n\n“You may not use Buttondown to host or publish any material that: Maliciously impersonates any real person or entity, or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity.”",
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      "source_publisher": "Buttondown, LLC",
      "evidence_quote": "You may not use Buttondown to host or publish any material that: Maliciously impersonates any real person or entity, or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity.",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "applies_to_country": "*",
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        "region": [
          "any"
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    {
      "id": "learn_r1085_newsletters_risks_buttondown_content_ip",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Buttondown: Rules.content",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Buttondown prohibits content that infringes intellectual property rights including trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets.",
      "body": "Buttondown prohibits content that infringes intellectual property rights including trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets.\n\nWhat Buttondown, LLC actually says:\n\n“You may not use Buttondown to host or publish any material that: Infringes on the intellectual property rights of any person or entity, including without limitation trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets.”",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://buttondown.com/terms",
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      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Buttondown, LLC",
      "evidence_quote": "You may not use Buttondown to host or publish any material that: Infringes on the intellectual property rights of any person or entity, including without limitation trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets.",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "applies_to_country": "*",
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    {
      "id": "learn_r1085_newsletters_risks_buttondown_termination_license",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Buttondown: Access.signup",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Buttondown's license to use their service automatically terminates if users violate content restrictions.",
      "body": "Buttondown's license to use their service automatically terminates if users violate content restrictions.\n\nWhat Buttondown, LLC actually says:\n\n“This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Buttondown, LLC at any time.”",
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      "source_publisher": "Buttondown, LLC",
      "evidence_quote": "This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Buttondown, LLC at any time.",
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      "id": "learn_r1085_newsletters_risks_ghost_account_termination",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Ghost: Rules.enforcement",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Ghost Foundation states that violation of any terms will result in termination of the user's account.",
      "body": "Ghost Foundation states that violation of any terms will result in termination of the user's account.\n\nWhat Ghost Foundation actually says:\n\n“Violation of any of the terms below will result in the termination of your account.”",
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      "source_tier": "A",
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        "explicitness": "any"
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        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
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          "source_unverifiable:fetch_failed:budget"
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      "id": "learn_r1085_newsletters_risks_ghost_no_refund",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Ghost: Money.payout",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Ghost Foundation has no obligation to provide refunds for amounts previously paid upon account termination.",
      "body": "Ghost Foundation has no obligation to provide refunds for amounts previously paid upon account termination.\n\nWhat Ghost Foundation actually says:\n\n“Ghost Foundation will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.”",
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      "subject": "Ghost",
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    {
      "id": "learn_r1085_newsletters_risks_ghost_reserved_rights",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Ghost: Rules.enforcement",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Ghost Foundation reserves the right to remove or disable access to services if they believe users have violated terms or caused harm.",
      "body": "Ghost Foundation reserves the right to remove or disable access to services if they believe users have violated terms or caused harm.\n\nWhat Ghost Foundation actually says:\n\n“Remove or disable access your access to the Services if, in Ghost Foundation's opinion, you have violated of the terms of this Agreement, or that harm has or will be done to Ghost Foundation or the Services;”",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "Substack: Safety.legal",
      "summary": "Substack shares account identifiers with child safety industry consortia to detect and prevent online child sexual exploitation and abuse.",
      "body": "Substack shares account identifiers with child safety industry consortia to detect and prevent online child sexual exploitation and abuse.\n\nWhat Substack Inc. actually says:\n\n“to share account identifiers with trusted industry child safety consortia for the detection and prevention of online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA);”",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Substack: Safety.privacy",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Substack's direct messages are not end-to-end encrypted and recipients may retain them even after deletion requests or account deletion.",
      "body": "Substack's direct messages are not end-to-end encrypted and recipients may retain them even after deletion requests or account deletion.\n\nWhat Substack Inc. actually says:\n\n“Please note that, at this time, direct messages are not end-to-end encrypted, and are not a substitute for secure messaging services. Direct messaging contents are disclosed to their intended recipients. The platform may restrict your access to direct messages received from other users when those users delete messages or block your account. Nevertheless, please note that — regardless of platform functionality or policy — recipients of direct messages may keep those messages even if you request their deletion, and even if you delete your Substack account.”",
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