Shadow Banning?

 You may have heard of somebody complaining about "shadow banning."  Usually, it is someone who makes money off his or her blog, and usually it is because they are saying things the Left doesn't like.  Well, as it turns out it is happening to John Petrolino at Bearing Arms in an article entitled Social Media Censoring 2nd Amendment News Just By Searching!?!?

The technocratic overlords who run Meta, and whoever else is in the pocket of the U.S. government, the deep state, or otherwise affixed via Operation Mockingbird, have truly jumped the shark. The other day when I was searching for my own work here at Bearing Arms via a search engine, I could not find the piece. That multi-colored logo did not deliver, even when I put the full title of the piece into the search. It actually happened again with another article. Alphapet Inc. is not the only company that’s putting the clamp down on searches they find disagreeable. I got a ping the other day about a search in a Meta property that did not go according to plan.

My friends over at News2A.com were doing some research for an article that they were working on. Much like many journalists, leaning on social media for details or information gathering, News2A was cruising Facebook. Just lurking in some solid 2A pages will provide a luscious amount of fodder to look into following up on. In this particular instance, they got an angry notification after trying to execute their search.

I have to confess to finding it hard to find my own blog sometimes on the search engines, whether bing or google or even Duck Duck Go. Shadow Banning? Who knows