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"Ban." The shadow in shadowban refers to the fact of the ban itself being hidden, whereas in this case the block is plainly visible to anyone affected.

• egeozcan 4y ago
  I'd argue that shadowban is visible to everyone but the banned, which is the case here (as in VLC not being notified). They can deduce that through the reduced download counts, but so can the shadowbanned users here through the vote counts.
  • 0cVlTeIATBs 4y ago
    We've never said that Google is "shadowbanned" in China before, nor any other site filtered by the great firewall.
    • patates 4y ago
      There is an article that specifically says that VLC wasn't informed of the decision. Underlining this by saying shadowbanned wouldn't be overselling it, right?
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