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r/DarkNetMarkets

Banned · Illegal/transactions

Ban record

Action: banned
Date: March 2018
Reason category: Illegal/transactions
Subscribers: ≈200,000

Facilitating illegal-goods transactions (drugs)

Largest darknet-market discussion hub; March 21, 2018 transaction-ban cluster.

Full banned record →Part of March 2018 Transaction Ban (Darknet, Firearms, Drugs) →

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Reddit Bans r/DarkNetMarkets, Its Biggest Dark-Web Drug-Market Hub

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Engadget — Reddit bans communities trading firearms and drugs
News2018
02
Vice/Motherboard — Reddit Bans Subreddits Dedicated to Dark Web Drug Markets and Selling Guns
News2018