WordPress
Rating Overview
Rating Criteria
Rating Criteria Detail
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria:
Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.
Risk Level:
MediumRationale:
In 2018, WordPress edited a user’s blog that “published the former name” of a transgender individual and thus violated the company’s Terms of Service, which included the dissemination of someone else’s private details (including gender identity) as a removable offense (1). The redaction of the company’s name was allegedly privacy-related, and the company has since updated its Terms of Service (2). The WordPress Terms of Service guidelines reiterate the company’s commitment towards freedom of speech and political nonalignment (3). However, the company has not canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (4).
Criteria:
Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.
Risk Level:
N/ARationale:
WordPress does not publish charitable giving guidelines (1).
Criteria:
Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.
Risk Level:
MediumRationale:
WordPress does not publish a nondiscrimination policy (1).
Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria:
Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Risk Level:
LowerRationale:
WordPress has not supported ideological causes or policies (1).
Criteria:
Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Risk Level:
LowerRationale:
WordPress has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).
