Multiple "subreddits" have banned links from Elon Musk's X platform after the tech mogul flashed a gesture that critics have said resembled a Nazi salute.

After Musk sparked a wave of ire with back-to-back Nazi salutes at an Inauguration Day event in Washington, D.C., on Monday, the bans quickly swept across Reddit. Such a move is not unheard of — moderators can ban links to specific sites, meaning that posts and comments including X links are easy to block.

Musk’s gesture has received mixed reactions from politicians and academics, with some likening it to a Nazi salute and others saying it was an accidental action made in the heat of his victory speech.

Elon Musk’s shameless Nazi salute, delivered behind the seal of the President of the United States, may have played well among the right-wing sickos on Musk’s social media site. But Arizona moderators on Reddit have had enough.

Elon Musk is mulling legal action against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for suggesting Musk performed the Nazi salute during his speech after President Donald Trump’s inauguration earlier this month. Now a fixture in Trump’s inner circle,

Tesla investors want answers, and they want them now. The company’s fourth-quarter earnings report just dropped today, but shareholders are more focused on the man in charge: Elon Musk. This is quite uncharacteristic of them,

Following this event, a rumor spread on social media that Musk's grandparents actually belonged to the Nazi Party. "Errol Musk talks about Elon's maternal grandparents, who were members of the Nazi party in Canada and later moved to South Africa because they supported the Apartheid regime,

He is no longer serving as a priest in the ACC,” the church said, adding that mimicking the Nazi salute is “harmful, divisive, and contrary to the tenets of Christian charity.” Robinson responded to being defrocked by insisting he’s not a Nazi and boasting the speech he delivered to his audience in D.