Thursday, June 13, 2019

Pintrest joins tech censorship by misusing the "porn" lockout, and by undermining disclosure in the public interest (also, it fires the whistleblower)

Project Veritas has exposed many questionable actions by the powerful over the years. 

Currently, it has exposed clear censorship at Pintrest (a second tier social media site with 300 mn active users per month, predominantly used by women). I choose Pintrest because this is a case of clear documentation, unfortunately, indicators are, that this sort of behaviour is now increasingly standard practice. 

I suggest, media companies have a choice. They can be publishers that edit content and take responsibility for what they publish (with additional duties of care if they dominate an information space, as that confers censorship power to silence or marginalise). Or, they can be communication platform utilities like the phone company or road network, where restrictions are tightly limited in the public interest.

This video therefore helps us to see the sobering depth of censorship and neo-fascist manipulation of online information today -- and remember, this is the rule, not the exception:



Yes, FASCIST. Contrary to popular notions, fascism was and is part of the statist, political messianistic left; as was the even more notorious National Socialist German Workers/Labour Party, NSDAP, aka "Nazi" party. We should not allow Stalin's propagandistic, deceitful labelling of anything to his right as right wing to dominate our thinking today, 80 years later. In a strongly socialistic era, fascism is relatively right but in a broader perspective it is actually far to the left. Ironically "Antifa," which means Anti-Fascist, is a classic example of paramilitary fascistic street thuggery.)

The expose itself is being suppressed, e.g. on Youtube. According to Project Veritas:


As Veritas tracked reactions, the updates to their Daily Mail style subheads as story summary tell quite the tale:



Similarly, by using scarlet letter branding tactics, there is censorship of the targetted:

Additional information/documentation:

See some of the leaked documents (some are redacted):
Packet 2 Packet 3
Packet 4 Packet 5


Anyone concerned about freedom needs to at minimum pay close attention to this matter. END