Almost ten years ago, The Oregonian newspaper had a reader comment feature (since deleted). This feature enabled readers to post comments on articles
I posted a 100% factual comment, noting that the data was sourced to the U.S. government’s own web site – but my comment was “shadow banned”.
A shadow ban is a devious form of censorship that hides the censorship. As long as I was logged in to The Oregonian web site, I could see my own comment – which made me think my comment was visible. However, when viewed without being logged in, my comment disappeared. Log back in and I could see my comment.
That’s the definition of a “shadow ban”.
“Shadow bans” are very evil. The old Twitter also acknowledged it had shadow banned 600,000 accounts – after previously denying it did so. When I posted ACA price quotes on Twitter, I went from seeing ten new followers each day – to ZERO. And it remained at zero for the next six months. Twitter’s trashy employees had shadow banned my account because I posted screen shots of factually accurate ACA price quotes.
Here is my post from the Oregonian in 2017 that provides all the details: Full text of the comment that was shadow banned by Oregonian newspaper – Social Panic plus supporting data and links.
That post reveals the rot that inhabits our national media outlets. The Oregonian is total garbage after that stunt.
