Thousands of Reddit forums, including popular MN communities, go dark to protest new policy

Thousands of Reddit forums are going dark Monday in one of the largest user-driven protests ever to hit the social media platform. The voluntary blackouts, which restrict groups' content from being publicly visible, affect Reddit's largest online communities, including popular groups devoted to music, history, sports, and video games. The protests include more than two dozen subreddits with at least 10 million subscribers, as well as thousands of smaller networks. Several popular Minnesota communities on the platform - including the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and Minnesota subreddits - have also gone...