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Example: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151301555066/the-week-i-became-a-target http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151301555066/the-week-i-became-... Hacker News does

Example: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151301555066/the-week-i-became-a-target http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151301555066/the-week-i-became-... Hacker News does the same, incidentally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060954 I always found that weird about the American system. "Free speech" on the one hand, and yet extreme reactions to political opinions everywhere. You regularly find Americans who publicly declare that they won't work with people with particular opinions. It switches which side is the one overtly silencing the other, which is also weird. When I was a teenager, it was definitely republicans silencing people, and yet today, not so much. Very weird.

skylan_q 10y ago
It wouldn't bother me as much if Twitter was small-fry. But in some cases they even see themselves as a public utility. Imagine not being allowed a bus ride because of your party affiliation!
DanBC 10y ago
That post is years old. Dang has said that they rarely use shadow banning any more. Here's one comment where he says this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12205161#12208276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12205161#12208276 > I think it means the same thing as shadow banning. We have largely phased that out, except for spammers and serial trolls. For the most part we tell people that we banned them by posting a reply to one of their comments, and when they seem rehabilitable (I suppose that's not a word?) we invite them to email hn@ycombinator.com if they want to be unbanned.