After Musk sparked a wave of ire with back-to-back Nazi salutes at an Inauguration Day event in Washington, D.C., on Monday, the bans quickly swept across Reddit. Such a move is not unheard of — moderators can ban links to specific sites, meaning that posts and comments including X links are easy to block.

An image of Elon Musk's controversial salute has been beamed onto Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin. On Wednesday, two left-wing political activist groups, the UK-based Led By Donkeys and Germany's Zentrum für Politische Schönheit,