ThePinkPill Policies
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The First Amendment applies to the United States Federal government. The Fourteenth Amendment applies the First Amendment to the fifty State governments as well.
The First Amendment does not grant the right of free speech. Rather, it prevents the government from violating the pre-existing human right to free speech which is granted by God or Nature. This is an important distinction: you have a basic human right to free speech even if you don't live in the United States .
Not quite. There are a few categories of speech which are not protected by the First Amendment:
Additionally, there are legal restrictions on certain specific types of speech. Examples of these restrictions include (but are not limited to):
Everything else is free speech, protected by the First Amendment.
The First Amendment only applies to the US federal and state governments. Private entities are entitled to set their own rules and speech restrictions for their own property or, in the case of internet services, their own platforms.
ThePinkPill chooses to implement only minimal rules. Almost all First-Amendment-protected speech is permitted on ThePinkPill.
Most other platforms set rules regarding what may be said on the platform. These rules often have the effect of quashing opinions, viewpoints, and news that disagree with the platform owner's political stance.
Additionally, other countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, and China have legal prohibitions on speech that the government deems to be "offensive". These laws violate their citizens' human rights to free speech. Platforms with assets, personnel, or data in these countries must comply with those anti-free-speech laws or face consequences.
First and foremost, ThePinkPill is 100% located within the United States. All ThePinkPill data, operations, and personnel are inside the United States. Although our lack of overseas assets might reduce performance for foreign users, it enables us to completely disregard foreign censorship laws, which do not have jurisdiction over any part of ThePinkPill.
Secondly, ThePinkPill is open-source. Anyone is free to examine the inner workings of the ThePinkPill platform. We don't have secret algorithms that decide what you should or shouldn't see. Our voting and ranking systems are fully transparent and free of artificial manipulation.
Thirdly, ThePinkPill does not accept advertising or investment funding. Yes, that would make it easier to kickstart the platform, but it would also come with strings attached. We do not want to subject your free speech rights to the whims of potentially censorious funding sources.
Hate speech is protected by the First Amendment. You may find it obnoxious and vile, but someone somewhere probably finds something about you obnoxious too. Rest assured that your controversial views will not result in a ban from ThePinkPill.
Other social media platforms have clearly demonstrated a dangerous and slippery slope from banning "hate speech", to banning speech that is merely distasteful, to banning content based on the political preferences of the platform's leadership. ThePinkPill refuses to go down that path.
From a practical standpoint, we believe hateful users are best dealt with by allowing them to air their rage in an environment where they can be exposed to corrective information, rather than forced to fester in secret.
As discussed above, threats and intimidation are explicitly not protected speech. If you are signed in to ThePinkPill, you will be able to use the built-in Flag option to bring threats (or other malicious content) to the attention of the ThePinkPill administrators.
Factual truth is an ironclad defense to claims of defamation. Think twice before posting next time.
Submit a DMCA takedown request.
Sworn United States law enforcement agents and authorized United States government representatives may use our legal requests portal to submit legal process such as court orders, subpoenas or search warrants.
ThePinkPill LLC is, always has been, and always will be 100% outside your jurisdiction. You must obtain legal process that is valid in the state of Delaware. Then, submit your United States legal process document to our legal requests portal .
ThePinkPill LLC is outside your jurisdiction. Sucks to be you.