Social news site Reddit has downgraded the status of its "technology" section after a censorship row.



The category is no longer a "default subreddit", meaning it stops being one of two dozen communities promoted to new account holders.



It follows a report by the Daily Dot that revealed headlines posted to the area had been secretly deleted if they featured certain words.



The subreddit's own moderators now acknowledge that this was a "disaster".



Reddit describes itself as "the front page of the internet".

 

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