Over 100 Reddit communities ban X links after Elon Musk’s ‘nazi salute’ controversy
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‘Given Musk’s actions on Monday, it may be time to rethink how we engage with the platform,’ one subreddit’s moderators wrote after Musk’s inauguration apperance. But dozens of subreddits have taken action and prohibited users from posting X links, according to the BBC.
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“As of right now x.com has been added to our domain blacklist,” the subreddit r/PCgaming announced Tuesday. “This is something that we’ve been contemplating for a little while now. X has become increasingly hateful, toxic and less and less moderated. This has, in turn, made us less comfortable with letting our subreddit link it to other people. Not to mention the distasteful things Elon Musk has done recently…”.
The Dungeons and Dragons subreddit “r/DnD” also decided to ban X links. Moderators for “r/NBA,” a subreddit that boasts 15 million members, also took a stand. The group announced its decision to block X links from being posted on its forum: “We have reached this decision after taking recent events and strong sentiment from our community into account. While we try our best to stay neutral and apolitical, we do not believe taking a stance against Nazi symbolism is or should be a political issue. Hate speech and the promotion of it has never been tolerated in our community.”.
He later added: “Defund Wikipedia until [the] balance is restored!”. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, even chimed in to the controversy. He wrote onX: “I think Elon is unhappy that Wikipedia is not for sale. I hope his campaign to defund us results in lots of donations from people who care about the truth. If Elon wanted to help, he’d be encouraging kind and thoughtful intellectual people he agrees with to engage.”.
