Shadow banning doesn't work. Trolls will do the same regardless and they have multiple accounts to do it with. They also know that they can run a separate wind

Shadow banning doesn't work. Trolls will do the same regardless and they have multiple accounts to do it with. They also know that they can run a separate window in private mode to view their own posts for suspected shadow-banning, and then create new accounts easily if they need to, at a minimum, it easily expands in scale to a VPN and beyond with minimal effort. As for the consequences, if you strip individual people of voice and have done it for years without telling them, it tends to have only a few different outcomes, nothing positive in every respect. Voice is directly tied to agency, they stop reacting, stop providing anything of value, stop being generous, anywhere, some tend to have self esteem issues, and some become radical. These are the natural outcomes of marginalized individual. Shadow-banning is a stupid idea put forth by stupid people with a spectacular lack of vision, and pushes a philosophy that has no future. That philosophy being the same as identity politics under Mao, that the group is paramount, and the individual isn't important. Any entity participating in this is effectively supporting the spread of socialist/communist philosophy, while conveniently ignoring the downsides. We know in the context of communities that the presence of knowledgeable and actively engaged individuals make or break communities. Moderation is important, shadow-banning isn't the way to do it. Having anyone stripping the agency or voice of someone else without their knowledge, is an act of true evil regardless of the circumstances about how that came about. Those that authorized and performed the work in case of automated systems, to make the system happen are equally responsible. If you've read any serious history, you would know this is how evil works. Its usually about putting a system in place in a way that people blindly follow which separates individual tasks from the overall actions, and gives plausible deniability to the people who support often unknowingly in exchange for food/wages. This is how great acts of evil often come about. Its what has happened in WW2, East Germany (Stasi), USSR, Vietnam (Hue), and China (Mao), and probably the US in the not so distant future given some of the secret systems the Snowden leak showed that are in place now and the general lack of public transparency in the past 20 or so years.