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"Shadow banning" became popularized in 2018 as a conspiracy theory when Twitter shadow-banned some Republicans. [23] In late July 2018, Vice News found that several supporters of the US Republican Party no longer appeared in the auto-populated drop-down search menu on Twitter, thus limiting their visibility when being searched for; Vice News alleged that this was a case of shadow-banning.
On 2 December 2014, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation banned jw.org. In August 2014, a number of websites were blocked as the war in Donbass developed, including the Ukrainian news site Glavnoe.ua , [ 27 ] a survey about the separation of the Caucasus from Russia [ 28 ] and numerous announcements and commentaries about the "march for ...
An example of the Scunthorpe problem in Wikipedia because of a regular expression identifying "cunt" in the username. The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning.
On Tuesday, Russia's communications regulator blocked Discord for violating Russian law, after previously fining the company for failing to remove banned content, the TASS news agency reported.
Shitposting is a modern form of online provocation. The term itself appeared around the mid-2000s on image boards such as 4chan.Writing for Polygon, Sam Greszes compared shitposting to Dadaism's "confusing, context-free pieces that, specifically because they were so absurd, were seen as revolutionary works both artistically and politically".
Facebook reversed its ban of a meme that pokes fun at the Democratic presidential ticket as characters from the hit film “Dumb and Dumber” following a ruling from parent Meta’s oversight board.
Reddit and Discord banned their respective official StoneToss communities in 2019. [1] StoneToss was also banned from non-fungible token websites, including OpenSea. [13] On Facebook and Instagram, as of 2021, some of the cartoons were posted by the author in heavily pixellated versions to prevent them from breaching those platforms' policies. [14]
Its 170 million American users are feeling mixed emotions about this whole situation, which they poured into memes, flooding the Internet with them. Bored Panda has compiled a list of the best ...