Swordsmyth
03-22-2018, 02:28 AM
Reddit's bid to clean up its communities (https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/25/reddit-bans-more-racist-communites/) now includes what those communities trade. The social site has updated (https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/863xcj/new_addition_to_sitewide_rules_regarding_the_use/) its policies to ban the trade of firearms, explosives, drugs (including alcohol and tobacco), services with "physical sexual contact," stolen goods, personal info and counterfeits. Accordingly, Reddit has shut down numerous subreddits that either directly traded in these goods or were clearly meant to enable those exchanges, including r/gunsforsale, r/stealing (yes, it existed) and r/darknetmarkets.
More at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/reddit-bans-communities-trading-firearms-034800195.html
More at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/reddit-bans-communities-trading-firearms-034800195.html