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Welcome to Digital Liberties Amendment Blog (https://digitallibertiesamendment.com). The Digital Liberties Amendment Blog website (the “Site”) is comprised of various web pages operated by John H. Horst of San Diego, California (“Operator”). The Site is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the “Terms”). Your use of the Site constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these Terms carefully and keep a copy of them for your reference.
First Amendment Protections
Digital Liberties Amendment Blog is a Blog by which Operator intends to exercise his rights under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution to advocate for an amendment to the United States Constitution, and to otherwise solicit association with others with similar viewpoints.
Electronic Communications
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You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use Digital Liberties Amendment Blog strictly in accordance with these Terms of Use. As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to Operator that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Site. You agree that the issuance of any HTTP request (as described at this linked resource) addressed to the Site’s domain, whether for existing resources or not, by any means, to include but not be limited to, “bots”, programming scripts, data-mining tools, and browsers, is included as a Use of this Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site. Additionally, you EXPRESSLY AGREE:
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Class Action Waiver
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Termination/Access Restriction
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Venue
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Severability
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Entire Agreement
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Changes to Terms
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