Reddit Bans Darknetmarket Subreddits

in bitcoin •  7 years ago 

For years, r/DarkNetMarkets was the place where drug dealers, hackers, and cyber criminals, would hang out and talk about what happened on illicit marketplaces hosted on the dark web such as Silk Road and Alphabay—and a place for feds to lurk in the hopes of catching some criminals.

On Wednesday, Reddit banned the popular community “due to a violation of Reddit’s policy against transactions involving prohibited goods or services.”

Before its shutdown, r/DarkNetMarkets had almost 160,000 readers. The subreddit has always been controversial, given that its users didn’t hide the fact that they were also users of the illegal marketplaces that law enforcement has been shutting down left and right. In 2015, the feds subpoenaed Reddit to obtain identifying information of the subreddit’s users.

The ban appears to be part of a new crackdown on illegal activities, announced by Reddit on Wednesday.

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