{"id":999177,"date":"2021-11-11T14:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T19:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=999177"},"modified":"2021-11-11T14:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T19:29:42","slug":"peloton-censors-letsgobrandon-cites-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/peloton-censors-letsgobrandon-cites-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Peloton Censors \u2018LetsGoBrandon,\u2019 Cites \u2018Guidelines\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpeloton-censors-letsgobrandon-cites-guidelines%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=999177&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Peloton is apparently censoring hashtags that include the phrase \u201cLetsGoBrandon\u201d from its platform, a Daily Wire review of the company\u2019s web platform has found.<\/p>\n<p>Accusations of the at-home fitness company censoring the phrase, a de-vulgarized version of a popular anti-President Joe Biden chant, surfaced online this week. Users <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/matt-margolis\/2021\/11\/10\/peloton-blocks-users-from-using-letsgobrandon-hashtag-n1530466\">posted<\/a> screenshots of the company blocking them from creating tags, which users can use to find like-minded people, with the phrase \u201cLetsGoBrandon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire attempted to create several different tags all including the phrase \u201cLetsGoBrandon,\u201d such as \u201cLetsGoBrandonAgain\u201d and \u201cLetsGoBrandon2.\u201d All variations were blocked under a message that \u201cThis tag does not meet our guidelines\u201d and directions to contact Peloton support.<\/p>\n<p>Peloton did not immediately return The Daily Wire\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304562\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Peloton-LetsGoBrandon-300x187.png\" alt width=\"565\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-LetsGoBrandon-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-LetsGoBrandon-925x576.png 925w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-LetsGoBrandon-768x478.png 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-LetsGoBrandon.png 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-304562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">onepeloton.com\/screenshot<\/p>\n<p>Peloton does allow many other politically-connected tags. A Daily Wire review of tags on the platform showed a mix of politically left and right tags in use, though tags typically associated with progressives seemed to have a much larger following. A tag labeled \u201cBlackLivesMatter\u201d is one of the most popular groups on the site, boasting nearly 270,000 members.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304563\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Peloton-BlackLivesMatter-300x97.png\" alt width=\"551\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-BlackLivesMatter-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-BlackLivesMatter-1024x329.png 1024w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-BlackLivesMatter-768x247.png 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-BlackLivesMatter.png 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-304563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">onepeloton.com\/screenshot<\/p>\n<p>A tag labelled \u201cWearADamnMask\u201d had nearly 70,000 members, and a tag labelled \u201cLGBTQAllyGrp\u201d had about 10,000.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304566\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304566\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Peloton-WearADamnMask-300x98.png\" alt width=\"536\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-WearADamnMask-300x98.png 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-WearADamnMask-1024x333.png 1024w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-WearADamnMask-768x250.png 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-WearADamnMask.png 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-304566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">onepeloton.com\/screenshot<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304567\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Peloton-LGBTQAllyGrp-300x98.png\" alt width=\"533\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-LGBTQAllyGrp-300x98.png 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-LGBTQAllyGrp-1024x333.png 1024w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-LGBTQAllyGrp-768x250.png 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/11\/Peloton-LGBTQAllyGrp.png 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-304567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">onepeloton.com\/screenshot<\/p>\n<p>The site also featured tags for \u201ctrump2020,\u201d \u201cDeSantis2024,\u201d and \u201cConservativePelomoms.\u201d The Trump group had the largest following of the three at about 2,800 members. The site also featured a series of tags playing off of the \u201cLets Go Brandon\u201d phase while avoiding using the exact wording, such as tags for \u201cLetsGoBrando\u201d and \u201cLetsgooobrandon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d caught on as an anti-Biden chant last month when a reporter mistook a Nascar crowd chanting \u201cf*** Joe Biden\u201d as a cheer for a driver. She repeated the mistake on air and the clip rocketed around social media.<\/p>\n<p>Peloton\u2019s community guidelines and content <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onepeloton.com\/community-user-content-moderation-policy\">policy<\/a> bans \u201chate, offensive, and obscene speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHateful, offensive, or obscene speech is strictly forbidden on the Peloton Service. This includes any leaderboard names, locations, profile pictures, Tags or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peloton is apparently censoring hashtags that include the phrase \u201cLetsGoBrandon\u201d from its platform, a Daily Wire review of the company\u2019s web platform has found.Accusations of the at-home fitness company censoring the phrase, a de-vulgarized version of a popular anti-President Joe Biden chant, surfaced online this week. Users posted screenshots of the company blocking them from creating tags, which users can use to find like-minded people, with the phrase \u201cLetsGoBrandon.\u201dThe Daily Wire attempted to create several different tags all including the phrase \u201cLetsGoBrandon,\u201d such as \u201cLetsGoBrandonAgain\u201d and \u201cLetsGoBrandon2.\u201d All variations were blocked under a message that \u201cThis tag does not meet our guidelines\u201d and directions to contact Peloton support.Peloton did not immediately return The Daily Wire\u2019s request for comment.onepeloton.com\/screenshotPeloton does allow many other politically-connected tags. A Daily Wire review of tags on the platform showed a mix of politically left and right tags in use, though tags typically associated with progressives seemed to have a much larger following. A tag labeled \u201cBlackLivesMatter\u201d is one of the most popular groups on the site, boasting nearly 270,000 members.onepeloton.com\/screenshotA tag labelled \u201cWearADamnMask\u201d had nearly 70,000 members, and a tag labelled \u201cLGBTQAllyGrp\u201d had about 10,000.onepeloton.com\/screenshotonepeloton.com\/screenshotThe site also featured tags for \u201ctrump2020,\u201d \u201cDeSantis2024,\u201d and \u201cConservativePelomoms.\u201d The Trump group had the largest following of the three at about 2,800 members. The site also featured a series of tags playing off of the \u201cLets Go Brandon\u201d phase while avoiding using the exact wording, such as tags for \u201cLetsGoBrando\u201d and \u201cLetsgooobrandon.\u201dThe phrase \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d caught on as an anti-Biden chant last month when a reporter mistook a Nascar crowd chanting \u201cf*** Joe Biden\u201d as a cheer for a driver. She repeated the mistake on air and the clip rocketed around social media.Peloton\u2019s community guidelines and content policy bans \u201chate, offensive, and obscene speech.\u201d\u201cHateful, offensive, or obscene speech is strictly forbidden on the Peloton Service. This includes any leaderboard names, locations, profile pictures, Tags or any other User Content that promotes, relates to, or condones lack of respect, discrimination, or violence of any kind against individuals or groups based on age, ethnicity\/culture, race, nationality, immigration status, disability status, physical ability, gender or gender identity\/expression, sexual orientation, religion, veteran status, body shape, socio-economic status, or political affiliation,\u201d the policy says.While the reason for censorship is unclear, Peloton has a history of \u201cwoke\u201d behavior.Earlier this year, the at-home fitness company rolled out employee \u201canti-racist\u201d training that taught that phrases such as \u201cblacklisted\u201d and \u201cgrandfathered in\u201d are \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d terms. The company has also been a prominent supporter of LGBT and Black Lives Matter issues. As The Daily Wire reported in July:Peloton has a history of promoting political and cultural issues such as LGBT issues and Black Lives Matter. The fitness company offers a series of \u201cPride\u201d classes each year in celebration of the LGBT Pride parade and instructors have frequently promoted its user-created #BlackLivesMatter group. The company also offers resources for white employees to become \u201cwhite allies.\u201d Employees were told that if they purchase books they should \u201cpurchase books directly from authors or local bookstores, especially those owned by Black people, Indigenous people, or people of color (BIPOC).\u201d According to the allyship guide, employees are supposed to \u201cread and listen to resources created by BIPOC\u201d and \u201cfinancially compensate them\u201d to become sufficiently \u201canti-racist.\u201d Employees are also told to acknowledge their \u201cwhiteness\u201d and \u201cprivilege.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}