You have to live up to more than your own AUP to be worthy of respect in my book. I'd go so far as to say anyone who does only the minimum required by policies they themselves wrote and defers the rest to extra-constitutional influence from the likes of Sen. Lieberman is pretty darn low.
So sure, do whatever you can get away with under your AUP, just don't expect me to respect you for it (or trust you with my data).