Saturday, June 15, 2019

How the Tech-liberals will try to steal our voice before the next election-----Pinterest Blacklists PJ Media, Other Conservative Sites They Disagree With

Pinterest Blacklists PJ Media, Other Conservative Sites They Disagree With
"This week we learned from a brave whistleblower that Pinterest, a site known primarily for recipes and home decorating ideas, is blocking content from websites that their Orwellian-monikered Trust and Safety team in San Francisco find offensive—by dishonestly labeling them as po*n sites. 
PJ Media is one of several conservative sites being blocked by the platform.
What was revealed at Pinterest this week, however, is just the tip of the censorship iceberg—and things will likely only get worse as our nation becomes increasingly polarized and the Big Brothers of Big Tech become more emboldened and less secretive about their hostility toward conservatives.
First, let's review what we learned this week. Project Veritas highlighted the blacklisting issues involved, which include:
  •  Insider: Search Term “Christian” Won’t Auto-Complete, Others Can’t Trend, No Notifications, or Recommendations
  •  Pinterest Blacklisted Pro-Life Group LiveAction.org, Classified as “Pornography,” Cannot Link to Site
  •  Leaked “Sensitive Terms List” Includes “bible verses” and “christian easter”
  •  Ben Shapiro Commentary Censored in “zero tolerance moment,” Slack Messages Reveal
  •  Planned Parenthood Undercover Videos Marked as “harmful” Conspiracy
I navigated over to Pinterest—which went public in April of this year, raising $1.5 billion in its initial offering—to find out if PJM has been blacklisted and indeed it appears it has. 
I tried to "pin" several of our articles there, including Stephen Green's completely innocuous and apolitical review of Apple's new monitor stand and sure enough, Pinterest blocked it due to "inappropriate content."
PJM's Debra Heine tried to post a link to a PJM article about a Trump rally and got the same message:

Worse, when I tried to add an image to the pin and clicked "save from site," which ordinarily brings up images from the website you're linking to, I got this message:
Of course, we don't allow nudity on PJM—in fact, it is our editorial policy to blur it out when it appears in an image that is necessary to explain a story. 
We are not a po*rn site either.."
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