{"id":39755,"date":"2018-10-27T07:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T12:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39755"},"modified":"2018-10-27T07:05:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T12:05:57","slug":"shadow-banning-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-were-all-digital-ghosts-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39755","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Banning Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: We’re All Digital Ghosts Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shadow Banning Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: We’re All Digital Ghosts Now<\/a><\/h3>\n

Just about the only bulwark against being silenced by the modern-day tech-corporate-NKVD-Stasi is Patreon.<\/i><\/p>\n

If you do a search of shadow banning<\/i>, you’ll find sites that claim to help you identify whether Twitter or Instagram has shadow banned<\/i> your account<\/b>. The basic idea of shadow banning<\/i> is to spoof the shadow-banned user into believing their public posts are visible to all while in reality the posts are visible only to the user or in some cases to the users’ followers.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia’s definition of shadow banning<\/i> is:<\/p>\n

“Shadow banning (also called stealth banning, ghost banning or comment ghosting) is the act of blocking or partially blocking a user or their content from an online community such that it will not be readily apparent to the user that they have been banned.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Here is whatis.com’s description:<\/a> “Shadow banning is controversial because it allows an administrator or moderator to effectively become a censor and prevent specific users from interacting with other members of an online community on an equal basis.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Shadow banning<\/i> and outright banning are only the tip of the iceberg:<\/b> everyone who posts content on the web or social media is subject to much more subtle and completely opaque controls on how much of your digital presence has been ghosted<\/i>–not just in social media communities but in searches and how links to your site\/content and re-posts of your content are handled by the tech cartel that controls what’s visible and “found” on the web and social media.<\/p>\n

This cartel is dominated by Google and Facebook.<\/b> Google controls over 90% of all search: what search results are displayed, the weight given to links (the page-rank assigned to websites) and a variety of other factors that can be depreciated<\/i>, removed, omitted or blocked by algorithms and\/or human censors (a.k.a. administrators<\/i>) without recourse and without the site or user being informed.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Shadow Banning Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: We’re All Digital Ghosts Now Just about the only bulwark against being silenced by the modern-day tech-corporate-NKVD-Stasi is Patreon. If you do a search of shadow banning, you’ll find sites that claim to help you identify whether Twitter or Instagram has shadow banned your account. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,127,1493,378,9746,587,22619,17887,1169,819],"class_list":["post-39755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-instagram","tag-of-two-minds","tag-patreon","tag-shadow-banning","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39756,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39755\/revisions\/39756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}