In a way, it's worse than banning, and it happens on all social media in one way or another. They all have their thumbs heavily on the scale of "the algorithm". At least with outright banning, you can explain to normies "Look, this is banned". With shadow banning, it takes a few sentences to explain it, then a few more to explain how drastically it limits how many people will see it, at which point they've lost interest or decided you're a conspiracy theorist or whatever. The purpose of shadowbanning is to effectively ban speech while denying a simple, clear cut talking point to people who care about freedom of speech.
They even have a "Visibility Filter" graybox over the pinned Daily Wire free movie tweet so that you have to manually remove the censorship cover to see the movie preview details underneath.
I hate to sound like I'm defending the guy and twitter again, but it's not shadow banning. Shadow banning would make your content not visible to anyone without you knowing. It's a related category of content moderation.
I do agree that it should be transparently marked and explained on the content if you've been artificially downranked, because otherwise it's too close to a shadow ban. I also don't agree with downranking for anything but trending pages, and certainly not for this movie.
Shadowbanning... only people that follows you can see that "sensitive" content... you don't reach new people.
Same shit Youtube does with some youtubers.
Said it before, i don't trust this guy, it's a pussy.
In a way, it's worse than banning, and it happens on all social media in one way or another. They all have their thumbs heavily on the scale of "the algorithm". At least with outright banning, you can explain to normies "Look, this is banned". With shadow banning, it takes a few sentences to explain it, then a few more to explain how drastically it limits how many people will see it, at which point they've lost interest or decided you're a conspiracy theorist or whatever. The purpose of shadowbanning is to effectively ban speech while denying a simple, clear cut talking point to people who care about freedom of speech.
They even have a "Visibility Filter" graybox over the pinned Daily Wire free movie tweet so that you have to manually remove the censorship cover to see the movie preview details underneath.
And it also won't embed on those discord extensions due to that.
I thought he was gonna get out of the way on this shit and let his designated corporate troll make the decisions.
I hate to sound like I'm defending the guy and twitter again, but it's not shadow banning. Shadow banning would make your content not visible to anyone without you knowing. It's a related category of content moderation.
I do agree that it should be transparently marked and explained on the content if you've been artificially downranked, because otherwise it's too close to a shadow ban. I also don't agree with downranking for anything but trending pages, and certainly not for this movie.