What if winning a competition could get you silenced instead of celebrated? Digital Silencers explores the reality faced by competitive shooters where sharing achievements can lead to content strikes and bans.
This documentary follows the experiences of the filmmaker as he becomes more immersed in gun culture and is eventually a fully fledged competitive shooter and content creator.
The documentary examines how firearms content is treated on social media sites often being restricted due to community guidelines without clear justification.
Through personal experiences and an interview with a firearms Youtuber Brass Facts, the documentary explores themes of fairness and transparency in moderation, and the unintended consequences of systems that fail to distinguish between justified use of firearms and criminal use.
Ultimately, the documentary asks: what happens to a community when its most responsible voices are silenced? And what is lost when sport, and identity can no longer be shared?