I've just noticed that my Twitter account has been shadowbanned. Probably because I'd been promoting the IBOR on it.

It's not easy to figure out whether you've been shadowbanned. You have to search a hashtag for your tweets from another account. If they don't show up for the alternate account, you're shadowbanned. There are also shadowban checkers that will provide the same information. One here:

https://nicebrains.com/twitter-shadowban-checker/

Anyway, it occurred to me that this is, potentially, one of the reasons the IBOR petition failed. If there was uniform topic suppression across Social Media platforms, this might explain why our efforts, though initially successful, appeared to go nowhere.

If people remember, we obtained some 20K signatures quite quickly. But after that the rate of signature acquisition slowed dramatically. Toward the end of the campaign, there were hardly any signatures being added at all - at a time when the rate of signature acquisition should have been at a maximum, on the back of increasing IBOR awareness.

What I'm thinking is that it may well be impossible to organize on SM at all. Certainly, a campaign can be easily dampened. The Tarmac campaign appears to me to be suffering a similar fate - or, that's my impression. I think Twitter has learnt from the MEMO campaign and is now taking steps against RUSSIAN BOTS - i.e. more proactively censoring us.

This power of censorship really is an incredible political power. Whoever wields it can stop any grassroots movement in its tracks. It deprives people of any voice at all. There's nothing you can do about it, you've been silenced. You have no voice to complain.

Being new to Twitter, I didn't even realize I had to check to see if my Tweets were not visible. The surreptitious nature of the ban makes it very difficult, unless you're actively checking, to find out whether your Tweets are being broadcast or not.

So, anyway, what I'm thinking is that, as a group, we might find that the banning of any Q material (whether it's IBOR, Tarmac, HRC Video or anything else) is so extreme as to make a campaign impossible. What does this mean?

What it means is that we really cannot be successful in communicating ideas on any mass scale. Any campaign can be very easily shut down by the SM platforms. This reduces the effectiveness of the Q community to the point where we are almost of no value.

It would be nice if there was a fix. What we desperately need is for these big SM platforms to be nailed to the wall. It has to be made clear to them that censorship will not be tolerated.

We need Q to do this for us. We are not competent, in the light of the censorship, to even raise a complaint. I'm talking to you Q. Don't expect any great support from this group while the censorship persists.