Reddit communities start to ban X/Twitter links in protest to Elon Musk controversial ‘Nazi salute’

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Elon Musk’s controversial arm gesture at Donald Trump’s inauguration.The incident took place on Monday (January 20), when the President-elect was sworn into the White House for the second time.

During the inauguration ceremonies, the tech billionaire and SpaceX and Tesla CEO addressed the crowd and extended his arm upwards with the palm facing down.He then turned around to crowd members behind the podium and repeated the gesture.

Many have since compared it to a Nazi salute.Musk has since dismissed the rumours calling them “tired” and an attempt at “dirty tricks”, however, many users on Reddit are taking action to have content from X/Twitter banned on the platform.It comes as Musk acquired Twitter in 2022 and later rebranded it as X.At time of writing, outlets like BBC News have reported that over 100 Reddit communities have blocked users from posting links to X in a protest to Musk.Should r/nba ban twitter links byu/Bananastockton innbaThis has not been implemented by Reddit creators and is not a sitewide ban – with developers telling BBC that it “has a longstanding commitment to freedom of speech – however, it has extended to some far-reaching subreddit communities.According to the outlet, at least 100 subreddits have banned X posts and more than 60 of which have at least 100,000 members.

Among the biggest are basketball community r/NBA (over 15million members), female-focused community r/TwoXChromosomes, (14 million members), and r/NFL (12 million members).Others implementing the ban reportedly include fans of football clubs Liverpool, Celtic and Tottenham Hotspur, fans of Formula 1, and fan communities for games including Baldur’s Gate 3 and World of Warcraft.As per BBC, subreddits for communities in New Jersey and.