Reddit has seen an increase in rule-breaking posts across “several communities,” and it has issued a temporary ban on one that featured users calling for violence against people who work for the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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.

Reddit has totally axed one of its communities and temporarily banned another after a run-in with Elon Musk. The X chief moaned on his platform that some Reddit users on the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter had broken the law after they allegedly revealed the identities of his so-called DOGE goon squad,

Reddit banned and removed communities that targeted Elon Musk and his team. One subreddit was temporarily shut down due to violent comments, while another was permanently deleted.

“…double standards,” writes a reddit commenter on the r/OutOfTheLoop page. “Apparently, Musk and his truck bro sycophants are allowed to gut the federal government and harvest personal data for their AI [expletive], but the American people aren’t allowed to call them out on it or otherwise retaliate.

Reddit has temporarily banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours due to violent content following Elon Musk’s claim that users broke the law. The ban highlights Reddit’s commitment to enforcing platform rules against inciting violence and doxing.

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.

A Reddit page which Elon Musk called out over threats of violence to staff members at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been temporarily banned. Taking to his social media platform X,