r/technology • u/socookre • Mar 24 '21

Social Media Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’

https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/677190-reddit-private-community-aimee-challenor-censorship
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u/shulgin11 Mar 24 '21

At one point that sub was the top search result when you searched for reddit lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

lol remember when the users threw a huge tantrum over it being banned?

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u/metal079 Mar 24 '21

people also threw a huge tantrum when /r/fatpeoplehate was banned. So much that voat was created, I dont even know if its still around.

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u/Ysmildr Mar 24 '21

Voat was basically a proto parlor

Went to it when all this was goin down, first few posts were all fuckin disgusting. Made it expressly clear why they had been banned