I pay for:

• eMail, Cloud storage, VPN (Proton)
• Search (Kagi)
• Anything that takes away advertisements if I do. I loathe ads.

They don’t need to take over all of them. A dozen or two of the largest subs would be plenty. Those with less than a couple hundred thousand subscribers, don’t really matter much.

This doesn’t make sense.

How is blocking different than a stronger form of mute? I don’t know what he’s talking about. I’m not sure he knows what he’s talking about.

Yah. I’m wondering what exactly is shadowbanning in this context? And how do they know.