
[Source: Pinterest.com][/caption]Pinterest's "Community Guidelines" section includes a host of topics that are banned or "hidden" from public view. As the site states, "Our team works hard to keep divisive, disturbing or unsafe content off Pinterest."
The topic of vaccines would probably fall under "divisive" content but Pinterest takes it even further by labeling anti-vaccine content as an extension of self-harm. Their community guidelines on Self Harm declare:
We remove any content that promotes harmful behavior, or anything that encourages or suggests self-harm. We’ll take action on misinformation that has immediate and detrimental effects on a pinner’s health or on public safety - like promotion of false cures for terminal or chronic illnesses and anti-vaccination advice.Information that paints vaccines in a bad light is also labeled as "harmful misinformation" under another section of the community guidelines -- so disparaging the vaccine industry on Pinterest may count as two offenses, instead of just one. [caption id="attachment_279593" align="alignnone" width="680"]
[Source: Pinterest.com][/caption] As Pinterest states under their "harmful advice" section:
We don’t allow advice when it has immediate and detrimental effects on a pinner’s health or on public safety. This includes promotion of false cures for terminal or chronic illnesses and anti-vaccination advice.
Under Pinterest's guidelines, not only is spreading the truth about the risks of vaccines considered a violation, promoting any sort of natural remedy or cure could be painted as "misinformation." As we've seen time and time again, independent thought is becoming a punishable offense.
Pinterest's attack on free speech is especially concerning due to the fact that users ("pinners") have the ability to search for things they want to see or know more about. By banning "anti-vaccine" information from the site, Pinterest is indirectly taking way the freedom to even search for information on vaccine risk. The same holds true for natural cures and home remedies: If all the posts on these topics are banned, users can't even have access they choose to look for.
The issue here is not just with the infringement of free speech, but the attack on freedom of thought. With increasingly broad "guidelines," social media giants are able to silence whoever they want, whenever they want, for virtually any reason at all. Challenging what you've been told isn't yet a crime -- but suppressing "dissidents" in the United States ought to be. The authoritarian Left is doing their best to usurp control of the Internet, but new platforms like Brighteon.com are out there, preserving free speech for all.
See more coverage of stories about disinformation and thought control at Censored.news.
Sources for this article include:
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