Posted on 06/12/2019 8:56:46 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Whistleblower reveals how Pinterest BANNED pro-life group Live Action by categorizing it as porn and censored Bible verses as 'sensitive terms'
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A whistleblower has leaked internal documents from Pinterest, showing how the social media company blocked the anti-abortion group Live Action by classifying it as porn, and also censored terms related to Christianity and the Bible.
Following the revelations, Pinterest permanently banned Live Action on Tuesday, saying that the group spreads 'medical misinformation' and 'conspiracies' in a shutdown notice shared by Live Action.
In a statement, Live Action founder and president Lila Rose said that 'we have more questions than answers about Pinterest's censorship of Live Action and the pro-life message.'
'By secretly applying the label of "pornography" to Live Action's pro-life content, Pinterest demonstrates a concerted effort to sideline a leading pro-life organization the only way they knew how,' Rose said.
Pinterest responded in a statement to DailyMail.com: 'Religious content is allowed on Pinterest, and many people use our service to search for and save Pins inspired by their beliefs. To protect our users from being targeted based on personal characteristics such as their religion, we have policies in place so that ads and recommendations don't appear alongside certain terms.'
Pintrest's apparent censorship efforts first emerged on Wednesday, when the conservative site Project Veritas published an interview with an unnamed Pintrest employee who came forward with documents showing how the company had added LiveAction.org to a list of blocked porn domains.
The documents show that LiveAction.org was added to Pintrest's porn domain block list on February 13, with the comment 'health' by the employee that added it. The list blocks users from creating posts that link to the Live Action website
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Remarkable how evil is always so well-funded, well-connected and powerful to stop good.
And then Pinterest fired the whistleblower.
Did anyone notice that in the same porn block list is Zerohedge?
James O’Keefe’s exposes come in multiples. We should be seeing another one very shortly!
Sounds like a possible defamation / discrimination case against Pinterest.
Who owns Pinterest?
He did a great job on Tucker’s show tonight. He’s got a lot to say and hopefully people are going to listen.
L8R
What an upside down world we live in.
The Soviets used to charge people who smuggled Bibles into the USSR, with pr0n charges, as I recall.
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