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Re:U.S. Army: “How has serving impacted you?” by austincheney on Saturday May 25, 2019 @09:17AM (#20008865)
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

Re:U.S. Army: “How has serving impacted you?” by steve_adams_86 on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:39AM (#20009309)
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.

Re:U.S. Army: “How has serving impacted you?” by austincheney on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:47AM (#20009348)
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.