terms-of-service
Are ThomasNet.com&#39;s terms and conditions contradictory?
<p>ThomasNet.com is a directory for businesses to advertise themselves.
It requires that business owners themselves &quot; agree that you will not use this website or our services or applications for ... commercial solicitations .&quot;</p>
<p>This is contradictory. Is this even legally enforceable?</p>
<p>Source:<a href="https://www.thomasnet.com/terms.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.thomasnet.com/terms.html</a></p>

<p>I see no contradiction. It says that</p>
<blockquote>
<p>you agree that you will not use this website or our services or
applications for chain letters, junk mail, &quot;spamming&quot; or commercial
solicitations or to send any message or Content that</p>
</blockquote>
<p>[is clearly bad, as extensively described]</p>
<p>As a customer I can use the site to search for suppliers of bolts and request a quote, and as a bolt-supplier I can make my catalog of bolts available and can respond to requests for quotes. Nobody gets to use the website as a platform for launching commercial solicitations – spam, in one view of what span is. It's a business decision regarding how they will allow their platform to be used, and it is enforceable.</p>
