Reddit Moderators Spar With Gawker Over Privacy Issues

Reddit's politics section bans Gawker links

Things have gotten a little dicey on the Internet as moderators from the social news site Reddit exchanged jabs with Gawker over an alleged attempt to reveal the personal information of a controversial Reddit moderator.

Rumors began swirling on Reddit that Gawker writer Adrian Chen was planning a post revealing the identity of Violentacrez, a user who moderates the subreddit r/creepshots forum, which posts sexual photos of women taken without permission. Hearing the news, the moderators of Reddit's very popular politics subreddit instituted a ban on all Gawker links, adding fuel to this peculiar Internet fire.

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