The verbage is 'use or promote'. The US Army literally blew up civilians with bombs for years after 2001.

I see why they'd be excluded from this rule. And I don't really care to put my opinion forward here.

Perhaps other verbage in their TOS excludes entities like the US Army.

The word promote means something similar to advertising or encouraging, as in intentionally marketing. I understand the context of your comment, but I don't think that context fits this particular word. Blowing up civilians is a prosecuted crime, which indicates something different than encouraging or advertising.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/promote

Absolutely. I was only pointing out the use rather than promotion because there was an 'or' between the two. I can't prove promotion of violence, but I didn't think I needed to.

It's mostly interesting to me to consider what the rules actually mean, and why they're there. It's clearly not intended for entities like the US Army, but why? Why leave the TOS so vague on an important topic? I guess it's just a blanket to cover any appearance of condoning terrorism on their platform.

There is reason to be confused on this matter. The military has the Uniform Code of Military Justice to prosecute soldiers for crimes on the battlefield and it is thoroughly exercised. UCMJ does not apply to contracted mercenaries or service members assigned to special operations units though, which blurs things for outside observers.

You mean beyond the simple fact that the Army has killed millions of them?

Yes, I was asking for actual evidence.

Here is a list of engagements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili...

Taking "2017 Shayrat missile strike" as a random example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike) shows that specific mission had at least 9 civilian casualties.

So even if not intended, the US army are in fact using violence against civilians (like probably most armies in the world)

> use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes

Last week's tl;dr:

    Iran should be wiped off the map
      -- President Trump

I'm pretty sure genocide falls under violence to further his cause