That's weird! My post is paying out 5 cents but no one upvoted me.
This has been going on a while but I thought I'd mention it.
So, you're telling me that Steemit Incorporated has time to work on all the projects they've started and still find the time to shadowban whoever they feel like?
Apparently not, because errors like this keep popping up due to this new behavior.
https://steemd.com/live/@animalcontrol/animal-suppression-berniesanders-1553462062677
We see that these changes are not reflected in the other Steem frontends like Busy and Steempeak.
This kind of behavior is obviously a bad sign. It points to the majority shareholders of this platform engaging in good-old-boys club behavior and targeting certain individuals according to arbitrary whims. This kind of tribalism is the exact thing a lot of people in this community came here to get away from. It is a stupid and unnecessary risk to the entire platform as a whole.
This is a fairly weak shadowban, as the displayed dollar values and rankings of the posts remain intact. You simply just won't see the names of the accounts 
All the more reason to question the risk vs reward of an action like this.
Go big or go home.
Why stop there? Why not ban him entirely from your sad frontend? Perhaps you're dipping your toes first to see what happens? Ramp up the censorship from there? Yeah?
Here's a better idea:
Stop dicking around and get back to work on RocksDB, SMTs, Hivemind, documenting code, optimizations, second layer solutions, API progression , etc. etc. etc.
You've got more valuable things to do than undermine your own integrity.