Elon Musk Gets Reddit CEO to Censor Critical Comments

The broligarchy is taking on free speech, as Reddit CEO Steve Huffman complied with personal pressure from DOGE head Elon Musk to ban hundreds of comments that did not call for violence or dox anyone.

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The power of the broligarchy grows as new reporting comes out that Elon Musk, who runs a government department called DOGE and thus can be seen arguably as the government when he speaks, pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on content moderation.

“Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation.

Not only has Musk been waging a months plus long campaign on his social media platform X against content posted on Reddit, but “he was also privately messaging Reddit CEO Steve Huffman,” The Verge reported today, based on sources they cite as familiar with the matter.

Musk was angry that after his “Nazi” salute at Trump’s inauguration, some subreddits banned links to X (formerly known as Twitter).

When that didn’t change anything, the Verge notes he “posted that Reddit users advocating for violence against Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees had “broken the law.”

In February of th…