In an update this week on the company’s site-wide community policies (no doubt motivated by an environment of increased attention to real-world harassment and its shadow-play online), reddit banned /r/incels for violating its new content policy that prohibits the posting of links or comments that “encourages, glorifies, incites or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or group of people”. Now, the 40,000+ group of incels that festered unchecked on reddit have been banned. “Incels” are a group of people, almost exclusively male, who believe that they are “involuntarily celibate”- that they are denied the sexual contact they feel to be their due-and they have carved out Internet communities devoted to this damaging and dangerous ideology.
