As the title says. I believe Reddit has been using shadow bans to quiet dissenting opinions that aren’t inherently breaking TOS.
As the title says. I believe Reddit has been using shadow bans to quiet dissenting opinions that aren’t inherently breaking TOS.
Yes, but it’s not just mods abusing automod to shadowban per-subreddit. Site-wide shadowbans have been a thing for years.
Reddit is a tool for social manipulation. That’s not what it was founded on, but it all went down-hill when Aaron Swartz died.