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Indonesia blocked Reddit (alongside Vimeo and Imgur) in 2014 under its 'Internet Positif' anti-pornography filtering regime, and the block has persisted for over a decade.
Reddit hosted a cluster of communities built around sharing images of women obtained without consent — including r/photoplunder, which scraped private photos from Photobucket, and r/CandidFashionPolice — curbed largely by outside legal pressure rather than Reddit policy.
In October 2014 Reddit acquired Alien Blue—the most popular unofficial iOS Reddit app, built by a single developer—and made it the company's first official mobile app, an admission that outsiders had built mobile Reddit before Reddit did.
Reddit unveiled plans for a native cryptocurrency, 'Reddit Notes,' promising to distribute 950,000 tokens to the community in 2015, but the project was quietly abandoned within months amid regulatory uncertainty and leadership upheaval.
Reddit confirmed it had globally banned several moderators of large adult communities, including r/nsfw, after they accepted bribes from a spammer to approve content — one of the company's clearest admissions of mod pay-for-play.
In December 2014, after the Guardians of Peace breach of Sony Pictures, Redditors used r/SonyGOP to index and link the leaked emails, scripts, salaries, and employee data — until Reddit removed the subreddit and banned its lone moderator following DMCA pressure from Sony.
In 2014 Reddit's Dogecoin community channeled a joke cryptocurrency into real-world goodwill — funding the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, sponsoring a NASCAR driver, and backing water and service-dog charities — in a celebrated display of crowd philanthropy.
Reporting in 2014 documented Reddit's r/fakeid community, active since around January 2012, as an open hub where users found fake-identification vendors, shared reviews and vendor rankings, and read guides on buying and using counterfeit IDs.
Ben Eisenkop, the wildly popular ecology educator known on Reddit as Unidan, was banned in July 2014 after admins found he used at least five sockpuppet accounts to upvote his own content and downvote a user he was arguing with over whether jackdaws are crows.
The subreddit r/HailCorporate, founded to catalogue suspected stealth marketing on Reddit, became a high-profile illustration that covert brand advertising — users posing as ordinary fans of a product — was widespread enough to need a dedicated watchdog community.
r/Pyongyang, a subreddit role-playing as an official North Korean news bulletin that bans anyone critical of Kim Jong-un, became a long-running Reddit meme — a satirical mirror held up to heavy-handed moderation across the platform.
Moderators of r/technology, then a Reddit default subreddit, were exposed in April 2014 for secretly using AutoModerator to delete any submission whose title contained ~50 banned keywords including 'NSA', 'Snowden', 'Bitcoin', and 'net neutrality'. Reddit removed the subreddit from its default list in response.