The tech billionaire had complained that some Reddit users were advocating violence against his staff.

Reddit has temporarily banned one of its communities - and removed another - after X owner Elon Musk claimed comments made by the site’s users about his employees were breaking the law.

The r/WhitePeopleTwitter subreddit, which typically invites people to share funny posts from X, has been banned for 72 hours after some users posted comments calling for violence against members of the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).

They were responding to reports which suggested some Doge staff have been granted access to sensitive personal information of millions of Americans.

Musk - who frequently champions his commitment to free speech - shared a post on X containing the comments, and stated: “they have broken the law”.

The subreddit was banned soon afterwards.

  • @[email protected]English
    17•8 hours ago

    There is no “here” here. They’re being removed on some websites, and not on others.

    • @gedaliyahM
      9•7 hours ago

      That’s exactly right. Different instances will be more sensitive to different issues, but hopefully that means there’s a place for everything.

      There are instances where posting guillotines will be removed and there are instances where that’s permitted but pictures of Winnie the Pooh might be removed.

      If people want to talk about anti-authoritarian violence, there is lemmygrad, etc.

      I’m more concerned with the fact that a lot of reddit LGBT and particularly trans communities were banned. That could never happen on blahaj.