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.
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.