New submitter redmid17 writes: A week after allowing anti-vaccine subreddits to remain and a day after hundreds of large subreddits went silence in protest of the decision, Reddit banned the largest anti-vaccine subreddit , r/NoNewNormal, for brigading, which is sending forum members to other subs to push agendas. “Antivaxxers in Reddit’s NoNewNormal community, named after the idea that there’s a mysterious global cabal trying enact a ‘new normal’ of compliance and using COVID as a cover story, had been brigading communities like r/Aww, dedicated to pictures of cute dogs and kids,” writes NBC News reporter Ben Collins.
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