Reddit Faces Backlash After Banning Several Subreddits With New Anti-Gun, Anti-Drugs Policy

reddit bans several communities post content policy update

Reddit is 1 of the biggest and most popular customs forums on the Cyberspace. The platform has not just been used for discussion and link sharing but also for exchanging and trading a plethora of appurtenances, ranging from beers, knick-knacks, toys, comics and of form armament and personal info. Reddit today decided to update its content policy to "forbid transactions for sure goods and services".

In an official announcement, the visitor says that its platform has been designed to host mindful discussions and non deed as a marketplace. This has pushed the company to prohibit the use of Reddit for transactions involving different types of goods and services. Here'southward the complete list of items banned from existence traded on Reddit under the new policy:

Firearms, armament, or explosives;
Drugs, including booze and tobacco, or any controlled substances (except advertisements placed in accord with our advertising policy);
Paid services involving physical sexual contact;
Stolen goods;
Personal data;
Falsified official documents or currency

As per our knowledge, this change in the content policies has come in conjunction with a number of banned communities, including r/GunsForSale, r/airsoftmarket, r/shoplifting, r/stealing, and r/DarkNetMarkets. In addition to Reddit, YouTube is also coming down hard on weapon videos with its new anti-gun policies, also announced today.

While subreddits have been banned for violating rules in the past, Reddit seems to accept taken an arbitrary arroyo to what information technology constitutes as illegal. Completely harmless subreddits have also faced the axe.The fairly popular craft beer community r/beertrade was one such subreddit. It allowed craft beer aficionados to swap/ trade local brews with others in their area or land. It was completely legal and a friendly community, which has been removed under the new policy.

The company clarified its stance on the trade of sexual and explicit content by proverb that 'paid services involving physical sexual contact in the existent-life' will merely exist the one to exist hit with a ban. This means the exchange/ trade of sexually explicit photos and videos will still continue to thrive on the platform.

There'southward as well r/GunsForSale, which has ways to verify legality of the weapons and ammunitions being sold on the subreddit. This also has had to face up the brunt of the update because it falls nether the aforementioned categories, fifty-fifty though gun auction is totally legal in the USA. Reddit, nevertheless, says that communities defended solely to discussion about guns and gun ownership are not impacted by this change.

Are you a Redditor affected by these changes? Is your favourite subreddit downwardly and out? Permit united states of america know in the comments beneath.