I just saw a post on here where several people said they were having problems with Twitter video playback. Some people said it was working fine, others said they were having issues.

I too have had weird Twitter video issues that are intermittent. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, or it will load but then stop or stutter.

This makes me wonder if what I like to call "shadowbuffering" exists. Imagine there's a video that Twitter or Youtube doesn't like. They want to stop the spread of it, but for whatever reason can't or don't want to censor the post outright. They could introduce an artificial lag into the video, causing it to buffer.

These companies already do shadowbans, why couldn't they introduce an artificial buffer delay to make it where you get frustrated and just move on to the next piece of content?

I have no proof that this is a real thing, but weird intermittent video issues make me wonder if this is yet another censorship tactic that social media companies employ.