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Skywing on Aug 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning

This! We were shadowbanning people on IRC in like 2001. Unreal IRCd had a shadowban plugin that literally did exactly what modern shadowban features do.

efdee on Aug 9, 2019 | [–]

I remember /shun.

v0x on Aug 8, 2019 | [–]

I don't suppose the term "Asgard" means anything of significance to you, does it?

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