My Anti-Trump/Republicans Pinterest Board Was Deleted.

[smirkymonkey]

Not just certain pins, the entire board, with hundreds of pins. The reason that they said they took it down was because it was considered "hate speech". All I did was save other peoples pins to my board, I did not create anything myself.

I could see it if they just removed a particular meme or pin that they thought was out of line (and I don't think any of them were, most of them just stated the truth), but they removed the entire board!

What is happening in this country? You can't even express your disapproval of a politician or a political party. Are they removing boards that are pro-Trump/Republican and Anti-Liberal/Hillary/Obama? I am just curious if anyone else has had this happen to them.

[HipChick]

1. Thanks for the update...I don't get into Pinterest much

but I do need to check...

[Bettie]

2. No, but now I have an urge to create

an Anti-Trump board!

[smirkymonkey]

3. I'm starting another one.

There are still anti-Trump/Republican pins on the board. I wonder if it was because I had compiled such an arsenal?

[Bettie]

4. Probably just had the wrong person

stumble onto it!

I think I'm naming mine Idiocracy!

[GoCubsGo]

7. You can make your boards private.

There's an option to do this when you create the board. You can also make it "secret" after the fact. There's a pencil icon associated with each board. Click on it, and then check the "Make this board secret" box. That should do the trick.

I think your problem was that your pins wound up in the general news feed. People saw them and reported them. Making them "secret" keeps them out of the feed. Nobody sees them but you.

[smirkymonkey]

10. Oh, that's a good idea!

I had a lot of really good things on there that I wanted to refer to later and now they are all gone. This time I will make it private! Good suggestion!

[JudyM]

29. Maybe write the Pinterest admin to see if they'll restore it if you keep it private?

[llmart]

5. I'm rarely on Pinterest.

But I have to say this:

Kudos to you for coming up with the idea of doing an anti-trump board! I love it! If I'd have known that, I would have pinned some of your stuff.

[smirkymonkey]

8. I called it "Vulgar Cheeto-Colored Ape"

I guess the snowflakes found it too offensive.

[displacedtexan]

6. They changed the Save Image/ Download image option window.

When you click on the 3 dots above an image, the first thing on the list is Hide Pin. Shouldn't that be enough for people? Deleting an entire board is harsh.

[smirkymonkey]

9. That's what I thought!

A little authoritarian. Obviously, someone was triggered. Probably hit a nerve.

[DemocracyMouse]

27. A little?

[DemocracyMouse]

28. It's a de facto free speech legal case

[redstatebluegirl]

12. They are pissed about what happened to Alex Jones.

A friend of mine said there is a website somewhere (I could not find it), that encourages them to go find the "anti President" websites and get them shut down just like they did to Alex.

[displacedtexan]

17. Interesting.

That works both ways, I guess, because I haven't seen any overtly Jesus or MAGA pins there lately. The Hide Pin thing took me by surprise, though. I thought I was saving a photo, and it was the damned new Hide Pin link.

[Initech]

25. Probably 4/8/16chan or /pol/. Scumbags.

[FakeNoose]

11. Your mistake was using Pinterest

Anything you "save" to Pinterest is available to anybody else who wants to see it or download it. You don't get privacy or a private archive, as far as I know.

I've been saving all my "Chump" stuff, like the cartoons, memes and photos that I share on DU, into my private account on MediaFire. I pay a small amount per year to secure my private account, but it's worth it because my stuff will never be deleted by MediaFire. I can delete or add as I choose, and I can make it available to friends. But it's not open to the whole internet like Pinterest is.

[eleny]

13. Just an fyi - You can create a "Secret Board"

"Only you (and anyone you invite) can see your secret boards. Secret Pins and boards won’t appear in your home feed, in search, or anywhere else around Pinterest.
If you want to make a new secret board, create a board and toggle "Secret" when you name the board."

https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/secret-boards?source=secret_create

[FakeNoose]

14. OK thanks for the info

I haven't used Pinterest for quite some time, and I wasn't aware of that.

[eleny]

15. I hadn't been there in a while until today so I double checked

But it's only secret to us and the perhaps thousands who administer Pinterest. Your question wasn't far off!

[Niagara]

16. Facebook did something similar to democratic/liberal/progressive groups

They purged quite a few of them including Reverb Press.

I have all mine stored on imgur and it's on private mode.

I hope this helps.

[smirkymonkey]

18. Was it only liberal/progressive groups or all political posts?

Because if it's only liberal/progressive posts/pins/groups then this is a serious discrimination issue.

[WillowTree]

20. Actually, no.

[Niagara]

21. I found this link in my bookmarks

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/15/pers-o15.html

I don't go to the opposition pages, so I can't answer your question. There are still our kind of groups still available on Facebook, so it's not like they purged them all. Reverb Press was one that I liked.

[smirkymonkey]

24. There are still many sites that will allow the "community" to decide what is allowable or offensive.

However, I don't know who makes the ultimate decision. It would have made more sense to delete any offensive material than an entire board that was just a collection of pins documenting Trump/right wing crimes and behaviors.

"In October 2012, Pinterest announced a new feature that would allow users to report others for negative and offensive activity or block other users if they do not want to view their content. Pinterest said they want to keep their community "positive and respectful."

[Niagara]

26. Interesting

On post #13 Eleny said that you could create a "Secret Board" that only you and people that you invite can see your pins.

BTW, I didn't get to see what you pinned. Although I can guarantee it wouldn't have been offensive to me.

[Initech]

22. Chump must have got to them.

I'd love to tell conservatives where they can shove this "shadow banning" bullshit!

[Niagara]

23. Well

I'm certain that Zuckenfucker has to do something in exchange for the zero taxes that he pays: evilgrin:

[lindysalsagal]

19. Badge of honor. RESIST!!!!

[X_Digger]

30. It's a private site, they can do as they wish. n/t

[Bradical79]

31. No one said they didn't have a legal right to delete it