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Hey all you censored cyberheads,
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Last year, midway through our campaign leading up to Occupy’s 10th, I had a sudden moment of panic.
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All was well. The campaign was gearing up for the big bang. Folks were clearly fired up.
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Then, out of nowhere, the number of people seeing our posts dropped — by half. Immediately, I fired off a couple of frantic messages to others with eyes on our stuff. “Are you seeing this?” “What the fuck is going on?"
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I looked at the stats. But I couldn’t pin it down to any one post. Things go up and down all the time, I told myself. Different numbers of people see different things on different days. It’s nothing new. It’s normal. But over the course of two days, our average audience drops in half — and there’s no way to know how or why? That, I realized, just ain’t normal.
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Talk about it, though, and you sound crazy. “Are you sure it isn’t just the quality that’s slipping?”
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We knew we weren’t crazy. We did our best to promote our posts with sub-tweets, and re-tweets, and more tweets. We fought tooth and nail for what used to be effortless. But it all amounted to a hill of beans.
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It felt like this monolithic media company was toying with us. Did the algorithm change? Or did we?
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But in retrospect, it’s clear what happened. We didn’t change. The algorithm didn’t change.
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We were shadowbanned.
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The platforms say they don’t shadowban. But the Big Tech companies also say they don’t listen to our conversations. We all know how honest they truly are.
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We know we're not the only ones. Yet most of us don’t raise a stink. We just stay silent.
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Well, we’re done with keeping quiet. And we have a hunch we’re not alone. Comrades, they can’t keep us quiet any longer! Have you been shadowbanned? Tell us about it!
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