{"id":1723005,"date":"2022-11-03T10:40:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1723005"},"modified":"2022-11-03T10:40:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:40:31","slug":"shadow-ban-of-comic-book-series-on-indiegogo-is-another-example-of-big-tech-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shadow-ban-of-comic-book-series-on-indiegogo-is-another-example-of-big-tech-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Ban Of Comic Book Series On Indiegogo Is Another Example Of Big Tech Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshadow-ban-of-comic-book-series-on-indiegogo-is-another-example-of-big-tech-censorship%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1723005&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Elon Musk has his work cut out for him.<\/p>\n<p>The eccentric billionaire recently took over Twitter, vowing to restore previously banned accounts and offer a healthier approach to content moderation.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll have to wait and see how he lives up to those promises.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s existing censorship is considerable, of course. Some progressive stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/disney-cancel-bette-midler-hocus-pocus-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can Tweet the ugliest things possible<\/a> and face no repercussions. The same isn\u2019t true for right-leaning actors like James Woods.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter censorship isn\u2019t alone, though.<\/p>\n<p>Other Big Tech platforms routinely censor thought, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/tyler-fischer-interview-fauci-cuomo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comedians who mock corrupt officials<\/a> like Dr. Anthony Fauci to august news sites <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/25\/dorsey-says-blocking-posts-hunter-biden-story-was-total-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breaking news no one else dares touch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that\u2019s the New York Post\u2019s expose on Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Indiegogo appears to be doing something similar to a right-leaning graphic novel. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/the-private-american#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Private American,<\/a>\u201d written by comic book veteran Mike Baron, shows a Hispanic hero doing the job the U.S. government refuses to do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/private-american-graphic-novel-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enforce the U.S.-Mexican border<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The graphic novel launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/the-private-american#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">successful Indiegogo campaign<\/a> to fuel its production, more than doubling its $10,000 fundraising goal.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Indiegogo is making it almost impossible to find that page.<\/p>\n<p>Enter \u201cPrivate American\u201d in the Indiegogo search feature. You won\u2019t find the site\u2019s campaign page in the results. Now, type \u201cMike Baron\u201d into the same search engine. Once more, you\u2019ll find plenty of other Baron campaigns, but not \u201cPrivate American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Type any other project name into the search feature and the corresponding campaign page pops up as the number one response.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck finding the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/the-private-american#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Private American\u201d page<\/a> unless you have the direct link at the ready. Any word of mouth efforts to promote the project fail if people can\u2019t find it via the search function.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/late-night-big-tech-censors-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big tech censorship<\/a> remains an existential threat to the grand American experiment. This appears to be just one more example.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood In Toto has reached out to Indiegogo.com for comment and will update this story as needed.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign creator\u00a0Chris Braly notes the move could be costing the project dearly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo telling how long this has happened, or how much has been lost. But our last campaign on IGG raised nearly $100K (\u201cThin Blue Line\u201d), and typically the crowdbase grows, but this is an anomaly,\u201d says Braly, adding his colleagues may seek other crowdfunding platforms moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve spent a lot of money on marketing, press releases, video, and more, and if we had known IGG was hiding us, we would\u2019ve gone elsewhere,\u201d Braly says.<\/p>\n<p><em>UPDATE: Indiegogo has not responded to the author\u2019s request for comment or explanation on the shadow banning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A version of this story originally ran on the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/indiegogo-shadow-banning-private-american\/\">Hollywood In Toto<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/\">HollywoodInToto.com<\/a>.\u00a0He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News\u2019 Big Hollywood. Follow him at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HollywoodInToto?lang=en\">@HollywoodInToto<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has his work cut out for him. The eccentric billionaire recently took over Twitter, vowing to restore previously banned accounts and offer a healthier approach to content moderation. We\u2019ll have to wait and see how he lives up to those promises. Twitter\u2019s existing censorship is considerable, of course. Some progressive stars can Tweet &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1723008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}