Conservatives may have just won a major battle in online censorship because many people are reporting now that their shadow bands on Twitter have been lifted.

Now, if you were to ask the mainstream media or someone on the left are conservatives being shadow-banned, they'll probably tell you it's conspiracy, it's not really happening.

But we know this is happening for a fact because Vice News actually covered the story and many of us have actually seen the evidence.

Not too long ago, Vice reported that several prominent Republicans were not appearing in search results but their Democratic counterparts were.

And Twitter says it was just a mistake and they fixed it. But whether or not Twitter is actually trying to censor conservatives or just targeting behavior as they claim doesn't really matter.

Twitter says they don't look at the content of people's tweets when they decide whether or not to ban them.

That's actually not true because we know for a fact that Twitter polices hate speech, which means if they're going to ban someone based on the context of what they say, they do have to look at it.

So this seems like an incorrect statement coming from Twitter.

But Twitter also says they just ban behavior. And if that's true, then maybe the behaviors they don't like as a left-leaning company are more associated with conservatives.

Thus, they may be inadvertently banning conservatives just because they are biased.

But why are people claiming not their bands have been lifted? Well, there's a service that allows you to test whether or not you're shadow-banned.

And many people are saying they're no longer shadow-banned, plain and simple.

What's interesting about this is that Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, is set to testify to Congress about whether or not they're censoring conservatives.

And just a few days before that happens, these bands all get lifted. I have to wonder why they would do it.

Maybe it's because Jack doesn't want to have to lie when he says that certain people are banned for their politics so they just decided to lift the bands on personalities.

Now, while a lot of people are saying that all shadow-bans have been lifted, they haven't been because some certainly still exist.

And I'm going to run through those tests today with you. But first, let's take a look at what's going on with Jack Dorsey having to testify to Congress.

From CNET, Twitter's Dorsey to testify before House Committee. Watch lives at 10th.

Round two of Silicon Valley's House hearings is just around the corner. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will speak before the House of Representatives, Energy and Commerce Committee following his testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence earlier in the day.

Unlike his solo testimony in the House, Dorsey will appear before the Senate along with Facebook CEO Cheryl Sandberg and potentially Google Parent Alphabet's Media Shire CEO Larry Page.

The House Committee's title for the hearing is Twitter, Transparency and Accountability, which suggests it'll revolve around the debate over whether Silicon Valley companies, based in the Historically Liberal San Francisco Bay Area, are censoring conservative voices.

Earlier in August, for example, Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and other tech firms banned the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and much of his InfoWorse online publication from their services after he touched off harassment campaigns, imbed at mass shooting victims and their families.

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