On the Distinct Likelihood that this Blog Has Been De-Ranked and Shadow-Banned

I suppose that there are alternative explanations but when you go from an average of 300 page-views a day over a long period of time to 10,000 or so for a few weeks (the monitoring phase) and then plummet to an average of 100 for multiple months and it happens at a time when the tyrants have essentially confessed their desire to lord over social media, it's really hard to back-burner one's suspicions.