Well, that lasted long.

"Dissent is a part of Reddit and the foundation of democracy," Huffman wrote in a blog post. "Reddit is a place for open and authentic discussion and debate."

However, this sentiment wasn't shared by Reddit's notoriously censoriously intolerant left-wing community, which protested against Huffman's free speech stance by switching numerous major subreddits to 'private' and vowing to keep them locked until vaccine skeptics were deplatformed.

That duly happened when the 'r/NoNewNormal' subreddit was placed in quarantine and then banned altogether.

The site justified the move by claiming 'r/NoNewNormal' users were brigading other forums (invading them to cause discord), something that's only acceptable when left-wingers do it.

"In short, Reddit used an evidence-free claim to banish a forum which had 120,000 members engaging in "open and authentic discussion and debate" over vaccines, masks, and authoritarianism," reports Zero Hedge.

54 other subreddits that dared to question mask mandates or the efficacy and safety of vaccines were also put under quarantine, meaning they don't appear in search and users have to enter an email address to access their content.