Reddit users ban links to X in groups to protest Elon Musk over Nazi salute allegations

A protest movement has exploded across Reddit following Elon Musk’s gesture during President Trump’s inauguration, which critics claimed looked like a Nazi salute.Subreddit moderators, who run topic-focused communities across the platform, like an NBA subreddit, have been banning group members from posting links to X, Musk’s social media platform, to protest the tech tycoon’s controversial arm gesture, according to an NBC News report.More than 50 subreddits – ranging in size from a few dozen members to millions, totaling at least 40 million members across the communities – issued bans this week, the report said.Typically, the communities contain many non-active members. Reddit hosts around 100,000 active subreddits.“Last night, at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and known alt-right personality, showed the world who he truly is, and performed a full Sieg Heil Nazi salute not once, but twice,” said the post announcing an X ban in the subreddit for “Destiny 2,” an online game.A Reddit spokesperson emphasized that the X link bans are user-driven, not an official ban from the platform.

Reddit has a longstanding commitment to free speech, the spokesperson told The Post.During a rally following Trump’s inauguration, Musk gave a speech thanking the crowd “for making it happen.”He placed his right hand on his chest and then extended his arm at an upward slant, with his palm facing down.He turned around and repeated the gesture, adding, “My heart goes out to you.

It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured.”“The man is without a doubt, a neo-Nazi,” the “Destiny 2” moderator wrote, adding that any members posting Nazi ideology or hate speech will be blocked “on sight” without a chance to appeal.The moderator accused Musk of allowing blatantly racist posts to stay up on X, and changing the platform’s algorithm to promote “alt-right” content.Musk referred to the allegations ...