Subreddit discussing "free thinker" views on COVID-19 and its mitigation strategies banned: The subreddit discussion board r/NoNewNormal was banned from Reddit roughly a week after the discussion platform said it would permit "debate, dissent, and protest." Reddit accused members of r/NoNewNormal of interfering in other subreddits that the discussion platform said holds "more mainstream views on COVID." The subreddit was reportedly created in June 2020 and grew to 122,000 subscribers, according to Reclaim The Net. "In early August, before the subreddit was quarantined for breaking the rules, there were over 900 threads and 10,000 comments a day," the outlet reported.