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Shadowbanning only works because it is news to people. That's the whole point. People aware of shadowbanning can easily check their posts from a private browser
by LightHugger 4y ago
Shadowbanning only works because it is news to people. That's the whole point. People aware of shadowbanning can easily check their posts from a private browser window or similar to see if they exist.
If it wasn't news to people, then no companies would use it, because it would be ineffective!
- krapp 4y agoThe existence of shadowbanning, much less fine-grained moderator manipulation,'secret blacklists' or opaque moderator actions shouldn't be news to people, certainly not here. Much of the outrage around this, like much of the outrage in the 2000+ comment dumpster fire that is the previous and still ongoing "Twitter Files" thread, is manufactured for political purposes. Like yes, social media platforms can moderate content and decide how it appears, or doesn't appear, under whatever arbitrary criteria they want, and they don't need your approval first. That isn't news at eleven, I guarantee it was spelled out in the terms of service no one ever bothered to read.