Image:WiredReddit has banned a number of subreddits that are home to illicit trades and activity on the dark web. The subreddits, including popular subreddit r/DarkNetMarkets and many others, were banned from the platform after a drastic revision of Reddit's content policy.Subreddits such as r/DarkNetMarkets, r/xanaxcartel, r/DNMSuperlist and r/HiddenService were all banned after Reddit took the move on Wednesday. Reddit announced the changes to their content policy on their announcements subreddit, stating: "We have made a new addition to our content policy forbidding transactions for certain goods and services. As of today, users may not use Reddit to solicit or facilitate any transaction or gift involving certain goods and services," the company wrote. Those goods and services include: guns, drugs, stolen goods, personal information, falsified documents and paid services "involving physical sexual contact."These subreddits often served as a home for users of Dark...
