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  2. Shadow banning - Wikipedia

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    Shadow banning, also called stealth banning, hell banning, ghost banning, and comment ghosting, is the practice of blocking or partially blocking a user or the user's content from some areas of an online community in such a way that the ban is not readily apparent to the user, regardless of whether the action is taken by an individual or an algorithm.

  3. Banning - Wikipedia

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    Banning, released in 1967; Banning (internet), a technical measure that restricts access to information or resources; Banning order, a measure used by the apartheid-era South African government to silence dissent; Shadow banning, a practice in which a user of some online community is made invisible to all other users

  4. Shadow banking system - Wikipedia

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    Paul McCulley of investment management firm PIMCO coined the term "shadow banking". [9] Shadow banking is sometimes said to include entities such as hedge funds, money market funds, structured investment vehicles (SIV), "credit investment funds, exchange-traded funds, credit hedge funds, private equity funds, securities broker-dealers, credit insurance providers, securitization and finance ...

  5. Cheating in online games - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 January 2025. Practice of subverting video game rules or mechanics to gain an unfair advantage This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article possibly contains original research. Please ...

  6. Algospeak - Wikipedia

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    Algospeak is the use of coded expressions to evade automated moderation algorithms on social media platforms such as TikTok and YouTube.It is used to discuss topics deemed sensitive to moderation algorithms while avoiding penalties such as shadow banning or downranking of content.

  7. Censorship by Google - Wikipedia

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    In October 2020, PewDiePie was allegedly shadow-banned by YouTube, which led to his channel and videos becoming unavailable on search results. However, YouTube denied shadow-banning him, although the human review was restricted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. YouTube was criticized by PewDiePie himself, his fans, other YouTubers, and netizens ...

  8. Censorship of Twitter - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, Twitter rolled out a "quality filter" that hid content and users deemed "low quality" from search results and limited their visibility, leading to accusations of shadow banning. After conservatives claimed it censors users from the political right, Alex Thompson, a writer for VICE , confirmed that many prominent Republican politicians ...

  9. Ban - Wikipedia

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    Ban (Internet), the banning of individual users from websites; Body Area Network, a wireless network of wearable computing devices; IP ban, a block set up by a server or website that blocks requests originating from particular IP addresses or ranges of addresses; Shadow ban or stealth ban, a practice used in managing online communities