Comment Re:Illegal to use proxy services [Re: So-to-speak (Score 1) 418
The straightforward reading, however, is that it is forbidden to use proxy services. You're also not allowed to run them, but that's specified separately.
No that's not a straightforward reading at all.
Lets drop the 'or run' to simplify it slightly and read that:
You're right: if you change what it says by deleting some of the words, then it says something different.
In the next sentence, it says in particular what you're not allowed to use or run, including proxy services.
Use or run: It's not merely that you're not allowed to run proxy services: you're not allowed to use them, either.
If that's stupid-- well, how about that.
As I said: the interpretation of this text could be ambiguous. You could do the lawyer thing and claim to interpret it the way you say. But the clear straightforward text is: proxies are listed on the list of things you are specifically not allowed to use or run.