Shadow banning
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Shadow Banning (stealth banning or ghost banning) is a form of censorship that is more subtle than an outright ban on material. Instead, material is visible to the user that posted it, but is invisible or less visible to other users.
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Examples
- Full article: Twitter/Censorship
- Full article: Twitter/Censorship
In 2016 Craig Murray was ghost banned by Twitter, resulting in a 90% decrease in traffic to his site from that site.[1]
YouTube
- Full article: YouTube/Censorship
- Full article: YouTube/Censorship
In 2019 YouTube announced that it would begin to reduce recommending "borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways — such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11."[2]
Shadow banning victims on Wikispooks
| Title | Description |
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| Tony Gosling | |
| PewDiePie | One of the most famous YouTubers. He has been a target of the Anti-Defamation League. |
| Joe Rogan | Host of the world's most popular podcast. He frequently dissents from the Official narrative. |
| Brittany Venti | An American internet celebrity, who has been deeply affected by censorship on social media. |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:People Need to Reclaim the Internet | blog post | 19 October 2020 | Craig Murray | The development of social media gatekeeping of internet traffic is one of the key socio-political issues of our time. We need the original founders of the Internet to get together with figures like Richard Stallman and – vitally – Julian Assange – to find a way we break free from this. |
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