Reddit bans usage of controversial words

Social networking site Reddit's moderators have been censoring posts with controversial terms such as "NSA," "Snowden" and "Bitcoin".

According to News.au, users faced problems when they tried to post stories including the above mentioned words.

The stories were removed within minutes, without any notification.

Reddit admitted that moderators created some filters that blocked the 'banned' words, to avoid the increasing amount of controversial stories.