Gawker Blocked on Reddit Politics Forum After Expose on User
Gawker revealed the identity of a prolific poster of "creepshots"
A row over a Gawker journalist's investigation into extreme adult content on Reddit has highlighted issues of free speech versus privacy and the publication of offensive material on the content sharing and recommendations website.
One Reddit politics forum has banned links to Gawker after what the moderator described as "an attack on the site and its users".
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