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r/incels

Banned · Violence

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Action: banned
Date: November 2017
Reason category: Violence
Subscribers: ≈40,000

Content inciting violence; misogyny glorifying rape

Banned Nov 7, 2017 under the new violent-content policy.

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Related issues

Reddit Bans r/Incels (2017) and Successor r/Braincels (2019)

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Wikipedia — Controversial Reddit communities
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Engadget — Reddit bans misogynist community as part of anti-violence crackdown
News2017