In the wake of Elon Musk's speech at Trump's inauguration and its accompanying (ahem) hand gesture, the userbase of Reddit seems to have decided it's simply done with Musk and his website. As we reported yesterday, r/pcgaming has now banned X links—and the same thing is happening across a huge number of subreddits, major and minor.
Posts by regular users proposing bans have been met with huge popular support in a number of Reddit communities, and in many cases mods have quickly instated the new rule. Now the subreddits for everything from World of Warcraft to Dungeons & Dragons to F1 racing to New Jersey have done it, while many others are currently deliberating or voting on the change.
