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(A global block is not the same as a global ban.) In addition to being globally blocked, registered users (not including temporary accounts) may also be globally locked, which prevents anyone from logging into the account. A current list of globally blocked IP addresses/accounts is available at Special:GlobalBlockList.
"Shadow banning" became popularized in 2018 as a conspiracy theory when Twitter shadow-banned some Republicans. [22] 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.
Ban evasion (or block evasion) is the act of attempting to get around a block, ban or other form of sanction imposed on the person's original account, whether temporary or permanent, on a website. Alternate accounts set up by people evading blocks or bans from websites are referred to as sock puppets .
Sauer, the C3P tipline director, said that the group has seen an increase in reports of luring children that involve Discord, which may be attractive to people looking to exploit children given ...
For example, if someone is topic-banned from "Weather" for ten months, but on the sixth month edits the "Climate" section of California, four months from the ban expiry, then the ban may be restarted at ten months, so if the editor does not subsequently evade the ban again, their eventual total duration would be 16 months. Repeated evasion may ...
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.
Discord has worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center to identify hateful groups using Discord and ban those groups from the service. [122] Since then, several neo-Nazi and alt-right servers have been shut down by Discord, including those operated by neo-Nazi terrorist group Atomwaffen Division , Nordic Resistance Movement , Iron March , and ...
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