Shadow banning information and communication is so fucking evil it amazes me that anyone who hears about the practice is not immediately outraged. Fuck Facebook entirely, and fuck the moderators and administrators on Reddit who misuse it. On Reddit, it's only supposed to be used for spam reduction. Steemit links are not spam, and shadowbanning them is simply anti-competitive behavior that does disservice to the freedom of information and speech on the web.

I know @ned has said (some interview, somewhere) that @neilstrauss has tested this out on Facebook, where he has a fairly large following, and found it to be true.